Inefficient, maybe. Lazy, most likely yes. I agree that htdig may be a better solution, however his current solution requires upkeep if the static HTML is changed and requires that the person populating the database pick all relevant words from the page and if new ones are added to update the db. For example, if you add the entry for the fakeFlowers.html and don't think it's important to add "long lasting" to the db, even though it appears on the page, then that search comes up empty. Also, if the site owner adds a new page or just updates the Flowers.html to include "roses", then the db needs to be updated for that page or a new record added for the new page, etc. Unless, by FULLTEXT, you're implying that the full text of each page should be in the db, then I would argue that there is negligible diff between that and the grep. Then the only major diff is the maintainability, which the grep wins. -Shawn Robert Cummings wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:13 -0600, Shawn McKenzie wrote: >> If there aren't many files and you don't intend to grow this site much >> larger and intend to always have static HTML, any easy implementation >> would be to read each file and search for the terms either in the >> keywords tag or in the entire file. >> >> Optionally, if you're on a *nix host you could exec() a grep for the >> terms which returns the matching lines in an array and display as needed. > > Wow, that has got to be the most inefficient lazy method I've ever > heard. I would never suggest such a route on a production server. His > original plan is much more efficient and is generally along the lines > how how search indexing works. As such for a simple site I'd do what he > suggest using a FULLTEXT field in the database, or as Greg Donal > suggested, use soemthing like htdig. A more involved solution would be > something like Lucene. Either way, you don't want to be scanning the > files on ever search request. > > Cheers, > Rob. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
