I would give the Google custom search engine a look though, you can fully customise it and integrate into your site, most people just do it the lazy way and link out to an external link, which is messy.
see www.cfsearch for an example, this took me no time at all. On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Michael Grant <mgr...@modus.bz> wrote: > > That's a very good point Russ, thanks. > I will pitch this as a possibility. > > > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Russ Michaels <r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote: > >> >> oh and you can use SOLR with PHP as well you know, is it not a CF only >> solution. >> >> http://php.net/manual/en/book.solr.php >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Russ Michaels <r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote: >> > What about the Google custom search ? >> > >> > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Michael Grant <mgr...@modus.bz> wrote: >> >> >> >> Collections aren't an option because as it stands right now the site >> isn't a >> >> CF site, it's PHP. >> >> I know I probably shouldn't be posting this in CF-Talk, but this is >> hands >> >> down the greatest collection of minds I know of, so I'm hoping to get >> some >> >> insight here. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Rick Faircloth < >> r...@whitestonemedia.com>wrote: >> >> >> >>> >> >>> I've never actually implemented a site search, so I'm curious >> >>> about this one, too. >> >>> >> >>> Michael... why are collections not a possibility? >> >>> >> >>> And, I've always used MySQL (and love it :o). Is that what >> >>> the Google free search utilizes? >> >>> >> >>> Rick >> >>> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >> >>> From: Michael Grant [mailto:mgr...@modus.bz] >> >>> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:04 AM >> >>> To: cf-talk >> >>> Subject: (ot) Best Site Search Solution >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> We have a client with over 300 pages of content that wants a site >> search. >> >>> They formerly had the free Google solution and didn't like it. All the >> >>> content is stored in a mySQL (yuck) db across three tables. So my >> question >> >>> is: What do people think is the best route to take to offer search >> >>> capabilities? Collections aren't a possibility so it either needs to be >> a >> >>> db >> >>> specific solution or a third party indexing solution. >> >>> >> >>> I'd love to hear your thoughts. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347321 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
