RE: [PHP] building a search engine ??

This sounds interesting. Where can I find htdig? -----Original Message----- From: scott [gts] [mailto:scott@graphictype.com] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 12:20 PM To: php Subject: RE: [PHP] building a search engine ?? and to answer one of the previous questions, yes... it is *very* resource intensive to scan an entire directory tree full of files every single time a user wants to search.... as far as i know, htdig indexes the information into one big file, and just reads thru that... which will save you loads of disk accesses and generally speed up search queries mucho... not to mention that allowing any users to submit data on a web form and then use that data in a command line tool is asking for trouble... :) best of luck. > -----Original Message----- > From: Miles Thompson [mailto:milesthompson@ns.sympatico.ca] > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 8:46 AM > To: void; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] building a search engine ?? > > > > Why reinvent the wheel? Use htdig or one of the other open source search > engines. There's a memo on the htdgi site on integrating PHP and htdig. > > Miles Thompson > > At 02:26 PM 7/12/01 +0200, void wrote: > >I am thinking of building a search engine with the grep command for our > >site. > >i have my information in a mysql db, > >but i am putting it back into text files. > >reoson being is that maybe the mysql db goes down under hevy load, > >and then our site would look like a tree with out branches. > >So i put all the info in the text files. > > > >now for the search engine i have a form that posts of the pattern. > >on the page receiving this pattern as say $searchpattern > >i do the command > >grep --binary-files=without-match -lri "$searchpattern" $path > > > >is this too resource intensive ? > > > >How does this idea sound ? > > > >please let me know. > >thanx in advance for any replies. > > > >Cape Town South Africa > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net