[ciapug] PHP search engines?

[Darcy Baston]

I wrote my own search engine to search my mysql database, and spit out 
records with search terms highlighted. Is that useful to you?

Darcy

On Feb 17, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Scott Phillips wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good (free) PHP-based search engine?  I just 
> tried out TSEP (tsep.sourceforge.net) with mixed results.  Easy to 
> setup/use but... the problem is that it indexes the pages of the site 
> exactly as they appear as files on the server.  Much of useful content 
> of our site is pulled from a MySQL database and generated on the fly.  
> None of this comes up in the search results.  I want to find an engine 
> that actually crawls the links on the site rather than the files on 
> the server. If you know of any good options off hand, let me know!  
> (Could just use google's API, but that has it's own drawbacks)
>
>
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> Scott Phillips
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