Hello: I'm trying to find a search tool for a website I am planning. The many CMS packages I've tried fall short when it comes to configurable search modules. I'd appreciate comments/suggestions on the suitability of Xapian given the following: a) the web site under development will have upwards of 1500 URL links to other Internet locations. b) each URL will have -- on a CR/LF terminated line -- keywords that help define that link. c) example: www.freshfood.org organic | backyard farm | healthy d) the intended website display of these URLs uses HTML, as in: <p><a href="http://www.freshfood.org"> LINK </a> organic | backyard farm | healthy</p> e) site visitors will have the option to browse the links visually to select based on the keywords, but a search feature will be drastically more efficient. f) the search tool should have a configurable submit search form to enter keywords to initiate the search. g) if the site visitor enters "organic", the search engine should be able to return the whole URL line -- given d) above -- what would be returned is: " LINK organic | backyard farm | healthy " h) the search engine should be configurable as to CSS and pagination for many URLs returned. Is Xapian appropriate to use in this case? Very much appreciated, Robert rjm at gandsnut.net
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 06:30:06PM -0700, RJM wrote:> [snip] > Is Xapian appropriate to use in this case?I'd say so. The simplest approach would be to write a simple filter script to turn your input format into input for Omega's scriptindex, and use the Omega CGI for the search. Cheers, Olly