Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Full text search...?

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 4 Oct 2004, at 16:16, Ulf Hallmann wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
>  quick question:
>  say one would want to build a full-text index into document manger 
> leveraging a file system search functionality.

>  Would that make sense?
>  Has anybody ever done this?
>  How would you do it?
>
>  Of course, parsing all docs into a blob upon load would work - but I 
> dont think that would be sexy enough. ;)
>  Server would be either linux or win....

The docs would have to be text files unless you've some way of parsing 
Word or PDF or whatever. There are various tools for that already on 
Linux at least that I know of. You'd not want to search all file types.

Maybe do it via an existing tool like htdig?

Shaun
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