[RESOLVED] Upload question

[condoug]

Hi

Is it possible to create a search facility in PHP which searches the content of files stored on disk rather than database content?

i.e. a user uploads many word/pdf documents which are typically linked from website pages and content, but when a user searches for specific words, instead of writing a script which searches the database for matches, it searches a specific folder on the server containing hundreds of files and displays the search results based on those findings?

Answers on a postcard please!

P.s. Or is it something that should be avoided completely?

[NogDog]

It's possible, but would be very slow compared to DB searching. What you probably want is some sort of script that would read each file as it is uploaded, analyze it, and store information about it in a database. Then you would use a "normal" database search based on the user-supplied keyword(s). I believe there may be some PHP scripts out there that do this, though I cannot point you in the direction of any specific one.

[condoug]

Thanks NogDog. I assumed so, but I just needed someone else to confirm it for me.