Re: phpweb documentation search

On 2010-12-10, at 11:12 AM, Hannes Magnússon wrote: > Hi all > > Now that Y! has thrown us to the wolves, (requireing quickfix form > salathe to get it running again), its probably good time to look into > alternative searching for phpweb. Dojo recently updated their search to use Google. Looks pretty slick and seems to work alright: http://dojotoolkit.org/ > What do you guys think? > Should we killoff random searches (and the option from my.php) and use > the PhD db? Focusing on the documentation search sounds practical to me. Last year I wrote a specialized version of manual-lookup.php that had better scoring logic and was tweaked to run faster by creating a function cache. The intention at the time was to produce JSON output so that we could have a search as you type feature. I also wrote a version that used the PhD db, but it was slower and SQLite does not offer much to assist with text matching. I'm not sure SQLite is a good solution. A manual-lookup.php style search for the functions + a Google powered full-text search might work better and would avoid the many-variations-of-sqlite problem. Stew