Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine?

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2001

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texte = Oy! Big long HTML files each listing all the ads in a classification? How many adds might there be in a classification? i.e. how many apartments for rent, fords or import autos? How many classifications?This sure sounds like it could be better managed by exporting the ads and massaging them into WebCat .db on a nightly basis.- BrianAt 4:43 PM 8/15/2001, Steven Jarvis wrote:> >> 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/-- <= Brian C. Fries, BrainScan Software http://www.brainscansoftware.com =>-------------------------------------------------------------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/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (dale 2001)
Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (John Peacock 2001)
Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (Kenneth Grome 2001)
Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (Brian Fries 2001)
Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (Steven Jarvis 2001)
Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (John Peacock 2001)
Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (Steven Jarvis 2001)

Oy! Big long HTML files each listing all the ads in a classification? How many adds might there be in a classification? i.e. how many apartments for rent, fords or import autos? How many classifications?This sure sounds like it could be better managed by exporting the ads and massaging them into WebCat .db on a nightly basis.- BrianAt 4:43 PM 8/15/2001, Steven Jarvis wrote:> >> 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/-- <= Brian C. Fries, BrainScan Software http://www.brainscansoftware.com =>-------------------------------------------------------------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/ Brian Fries

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