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Posted by Captain Paralytic on July 18, 2008, 8:18 am
Please log in for more thread options > burgermeiste...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> i want to implement a feature where a user searches with a keyword and
> >> search results are displayed according to the keyword
>
> >> or phrase entered by the user.
>
> >> following are the steps i want to follow. please advice if i am
> >> missing out any steps or i can add any step.
>
> >> 1. read the keyword entered by user using $search =
> >> $_POST["searchkeyword"];
>
> >> 2. read all the files from the root directory into a variable (as all
> >> files will be saved in the root directory)
>
> >> 3. from step 2 filter and read only files with html and php extensions
> >> into a variable
>
> >> 4. read the entire contents of all html and php files into a variable
>
> >> 5. compare $search with all the individual html and php file contents
> >> from step 4
>
> >> 6. if a match is found with either html or php file then display a
> >> brief title and brief description which will be a link to
>
> >> the actual file which has the keyword.
>
> >> 7. display search results in a serial order as 1. Brief Title of the
> >> page 2. Brief Title of the page ...
>
> >> 8. at the bottom of the page based on the total number of results
> >> found from step 6 i would like to provide a link to page 1
> >> page 2 page3 ... (i can decide to display only 10 results per page)
>
> >> please advice.
>
> >> any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> >> thanks.
>
> > Depending on the process that loads the files being searched into the
> > directory, it may be quicker to put the contents of the files as they
> > are added to the directory into a database. That is, make a database
> > entry for each word in each file. That way instead of parsing each
> > file every time someone does a search, you instead can just do a
> > simple database query and return the files that contain the keywords.
> > Of course, if these files being searched are regularly changed, this
> > will not work so well.
>
> If you are using MySQL, MySQL has a FULLTEXT table type.
Er, no it doesn't! You just build a FULLTEXT index on a regular table.
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