[thelist] Search Script Advice

[Anthony Baratta]

At 05:48 PM 4/8/2002, Gina K. Anderson wrote:

>I have a site that needs a search engine, and I'm hoping you all can help.
>It's
>on a Linux machine, we can use Perl or PHP and a mySQL database.
>
>What I'm looking for, is a script that will search an articles database as
>well
>as the html pages and pull links up (of course) of the results.

What I would do is use a custom Perl Script for the DB and the use SWISH
for the HTML indexing. You can wrap SWISH with the Perl Script to make it
look seamless.

         SWISH is @
         http://swish-e.org/

Hope that helps.
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Anthony Baratta
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