Any open source options to do this?

[PartisanEntity]

Hello all,

We have a booklet in our office containing technical terms. We would like to make it available online in our intranet as a searchable database with multiple languages, i.e.:

Enter a term, then select in which language you would like to search and in which language you want the result.

I would rather not develop this all from the ground up if there are any projects out there, or tools, that do something similar. (Plus I have never developed something this extensive before).

Any ideas?

[andrewsmd]

I would work on gettin the booklet in a digital form before you go about designing a system.

[PartisanEntity]

We have it in digital form and the terms will eventually be made available as an excel sheet for example, for easy importation into the system.

[andrewsmd]

Well then you will want to import the terms and definitions into some sort of database that has some sort of full texting functionality. Then design a simple user interface with php (I'm assuming since you posted here); Sounds to me like a beta version of this site could be up a few days if you have an experienced programmer around. I don't know of any "out of the box" php classes that do this, but there could be one. If you're only putting it on your LAN and aren't worried about sql injection, user logins, and what not, then this really doesn't sound like to big of a project to me.