Search app

[circuitjump]

Does anyone know of a good search script for a site thats done in PHP or as a CGI?

Thanks

[roscoepico]

are you searching files or a database? you can find scripts to perform either or these tasks at hotscripts.com or zend.com, both are excellent script resources.

[rpking]

I can recommend Perlfect [perlfect.com] search. I recently installed it, and am very happy. Easy to install (and I have relatively little *nix experience), easy to modify, completely customisable, pretty fast, and easy to control indexing.

[circuitjump]

Cool, Thanks everyone.

[circuitjump]

rpking,
Perlfect is NICE!!!

It's easy to configure (well it does most of it by itself, just tell it what it needs to know)
And easy to use. Thanks

nicebloke, I tried fluffy and even though it looks like a good search app. It was a little harder to get working. At least on my server. But thanks for the help.

[Brett_Tabke]

I'm using Fluid Dynamics SE for the board here. Works pretty good. Using the flat file version. 10k docs in it (14meg'ish).

[xav.com...]

[alexjc]

These are both filesystem search programs right?

How about database searching? Mysql specifically... anyone got any recommendations?

[circuitjump]

alexjc, Perlfect allows you to use Databases. Not sure which but I'll check on it for you.

[Brett_Tabke]

Xav's uses either SQL/MySql via perl's DBD module, or a FlatFile system. It's a walking talking spider - even has altavista standard syntax. I have a MySQL db with 300meg in it here on the home box running FDSE from Xav.

Perfect uses SDBM which comes with Perl. Very fast on small db's under 10meg.