Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine?
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texte = >> I seem to remember this being discussed a while back, but I can't find >> anything on it in the archives (I'm probably just not formulating good >> searches, though). >> >> I want to be able to search files in a folder. Just a text search, like >> you'd run on a database, but instead using files. Is there a way to do this >> with [listfiles]? >> >> If someone has some functioning code they could post, that would be great, >> too. >> > > This is Yet Another Thing Best Done outside of WebCatalog(TM). Most > modern web servers come with an indexing engine (and some, like IIS's > should be deleted immediately ;~). > > Do you want to do this search once, every day, or on demand by the web > user? This is not an idle question, since it impacts what kind of > solution you are going to need.We have an indexing engine (WebSTAR Search), but it's been somewhat problematic for us. I've found that WebCat is more dependable and customizable. The particular application I wanted to use WebCat for would only have to be indexed once per day. It's for a newspaper site, and it's for searching the classified ads from the paper, which are output by the ad manager software as HTML files, one file per category per night. It's the only way that software package will output the ads.I've been indexing that folder with WebSTAR's SearchIndexer each night, and that works OK. I thought I might be able to put together a more robust search with WebCat, is all.Thanks,Steven-- Steven Jarvis Web Developer sjarvis@nwaonline.net NWAonline.net ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>> I seem to remember this being discussed a while back, but I can't find >> anything on it in the archives (I'm probably just not formulating good >> searches, though). >> >> I want to be able to search files in a folder. Just a text search, like >> you'd run on a database, but instead using files. Is there a way to do this >> with [listfiles]? >> >> If someone has some functioning code they could post, that would be great, >> too. >> > > This is Yet Another Thing Best Done outside of WebCatalog(TM). Most > modern web servers come with an indexing engine (and some, like IIS's > should be deleted immediately ;~). > > Do you want to do this search once, every day, or on demand by the web > user? This is not an idle question, since it impacts what kind of > solution you are going to need.We have an indexing engine (WebSTAR Search), but it's been somewhat problematic for us. I've found that WebCat is more dependable and customizable. The particular application I wanted to use WebCat for would only have to be indexed once per day. It's for a newspaper site, and it's for searching the classified ads from the paper, which are output by the ad manager software as HTML files, one file per category per night. It's the only way that software package will output the ads.I've been indexing that folder with WebSTAR's SearchIndexer each night, and that works OK. I thought I might be able to put together a more robust search with WebCat, is all.Thanks,Steven-- Steven Jarvis Web Developer sjarvis@nwaonline.net NWAonline.net ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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