Re: Package Proposal: Search_SwishE
| From: | Bertrand Mansion | Date: | Mon, 12 May 2003 06:23:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Package Proposal: Search_SwishE | ||
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<mj@php.net> wrote :
> On Sun May 11, 2003 at 11:4925AM +0100, Davey wrote:
>> Basically, its a wrapper around the Swish-E spider binary. This spider
>> can work with HTML, XML (using internal parser or libxml2 for both HTMLa
>> and XML), PDF (PERL extension converts to HTML first, so if you want PDF
>> you need PERL too. Note the actual Swish-E is written in C), Doc, Excel
>> and even MP3 (via ID3 tags) again, all via extra PERL extensions.
>>
>> It can work locally, over http and even by processing texts that is the
>> result of another file (script or whatever).
>
> Does the wrapper use some sort of PHP extension or does it communicate
> directly with the binary? And the API of your package and
> Search_Mngosearch should be similar.
Search_Mnogosearch has not been released yet and I still need to do some
more work on it. I would like to add a result object and a query object. So
IMO, it would be nice if Davey and I could define a common API for both
packages, knowing that Search_Mnogosearch can still change.
TIA
Bertrand Mansion
Mamasam