RE: [PEAR] DB-independent fulltext indexing

Hi Bertrand, > > My problem in a nutshell: How do I use, or at least roughly emulate, > > fulltext indexing in a db-portable way? My project requires near perfect > > portability, so I'm already using PEAR::DB and standard ansi sql > > extensively, but I need to provide the ability to search large text > fields. > > > > Any ideas? I realize this questions isn't totally PEAR-specific, but I > ask > > here in case anyone has tried something like this or extended DB like > this. > > Mnogosearch does a good job at building full-text indexes for databases. > But you will have to make sure it is not oversized for your project or too > difficult to install. > > http://www.mnogosearch.org Thanks! I'll check that out. I was hoping to find something, though, that would work at runtime, that wouldn't require rebuilding indexes every day or every interval. If mnogosearch is a spider, such as phpDig for example, I suspect it will be impractical to index in real time. Andy