Re: Re: PHP based search engine

I've gone to the mnoGoSearch page - it does look like it would do the job nicely, however my hosting company absolutely refuses to upgrade to anything above PHP 3.0.16, also it appears as though I'd have to compile a good portion of mnoGoSearch on the server itself - another thing I'm not allowed to do. I think I've got the Fluid Dynamics search engine working fairly well now - its not perfect, but it'll do until I can come up with something better. Thanks -Tim At 11:39 AM 3/13/2002 +0100, you wrote:

David Robley wrote:

PHP from around 4.05 has functions available to interface with the mnoGOSearch search engine, available from http://www.mnogosearch.ru/ I recommend you look at this combination.

I recommend this one to, its a very good alternative which I used for several projects. The nice thing is that you can easily update and keep the index updated by yourself, no need for that stupid indexer that comes along to crawl around your site. I have a small script which inserts new keywords/descriptions/titles directly in the index on update of something that should be searchable. This is probably easiest to do when you're using a database as a backend for the search. Another soloution is to have a hourly cronscript that updates the index. I have used that on bookmarks.egp.cx . Since I have a modification timestamp on each link there I only need to update those who where changed since the last indexinground. Often there are no links modified in the last hour, so its not very resourcehungry, but that depends on the data off course. :) Just my ideas. :) Good luck!

        Eric

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