Searching Through Documents

emcb_php

Hi,

Im creating a search feature for the forum software that im creating, but i dont know how to create such a function. If anyone knows how i can search through .html documents in a given directory that would be a big help.

Cheers Everyone,

Elfyn

gid__

I've used http://php.warpedweb.net/ (sitesearch script) before and it works well. You just have to keep the copyright notice intact, and provide a link to his site.

mrjam

hmm... i'd read up on fopen(), fread(), fgets() and perhaps fscanf().

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

emcb_php

Hi,

Im thinking i could exec the ls command to list the files, then put them in an array and then use something like fscanf($array);

Do you think that would work?

Cheers,

Elfyn

emcb_php

Hi,

Thanks Steve, But i would prefer to try and build my own, because in most cases these search engines dont allow you to edit their code, which is what i would need to do to add custom features to filter and other tasks.

Its good to know that there are cool people here to help a newbie like me.

Thanks,

Elfyn

gid__

You can edit the code, you just have to keep his copyright notice intact and provide a link to his site on your page somewhere.

It's actually a pretty nice package, I've installed it on two sites already.

I can see your reasoning if you don't want to put a link on your page. I would have written it myself, but came to the conclusion that it would take me probably an day or two to write it myself and do it "right".

Because you have to write functions to grab the html from the server so php code is not included, and all files are included correctly, parsing the html to get the title, and keeping track of every word on the page. while excluding html tags. Plus many other fun problems as your encounter them. 🙂

gid__

There are directory functions in php, no need to exec ls directly.

http://php.he.net/manual/en/class.dir.php

If you're indexing php files then you're going to have to fetch them from the web server, and not read them in locally so all files get included right, so you're not indexing php code. Also write functions to strip html out of the files so you're not indexing html tags.
The 3rd party program that I suggested does all this quite well. You can do whatever you want with it basically, just provide a link somewhere on your site to his page.