-----Original Message----- From: Petr Smith [mailto:pesmail2003@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 09 November 2005 11:27 To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: PHP Search Engine Richard Lynch wrote: > On Tue, November 8, 2005 11:20 pm, Leonard Burton wrote: > >>Has anyone on here created a search engine in PHP? > > > Sure, of sorts, now and again, here and there, to some degree. .... > > I am reasonably certain that if you Googled for: > "PHP web spider framework" > you would find several packages that would have at least 99% of what > you need... Because these simply have to exist out there. > From you description it seems like writing search engine (full text) is simple task for three or four nights. It's not true. Writing quality full text search engine is very complex task and you can stuck at lots of problems. If you don't understand the theory of text searching, you can finish it somehow, but it will not search the way people are used to. The results will be wrong. You think there have to be something written in PHP. There is not. Lots of dead experiments - yes. Something good, working and in active developement - no. There is even not much open source search engines written in other languages. You just cannot stick to PHP - but it doesn't matter in which language is the spider. You need only some interface to the search part. Here's my list: mysql fulltext - toy for children phpdig - lots of little problems here and there, unusable htdig - dead, buggy swish-e - dead? swish++ - one man show? aspseek - dead mnogosearch - try it, it's not google, but usable, php interface lucene - top quality, best query syntax egothor - people says it's usable did I forgot something good? Petr -- It sounds like this is specifically for html pages, or am I assuming wrong? Do any of these or other search engines index html content held in a MySQL database? Arno -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
