G'day.
Even though I am not actively working on ht://Dig anymore, I do read all
the messages on the lists and still think about all this stuff on a
regular basis... I want to plant a seed:
It seems to me that there are quite a few people that use php3 (or perl
or whatever) to parse output from htsearch. The reasons are quite
obvious.
My suggestion is to maybe look into making php3 a plugin into htsearch
so that the output template processing can be done directly by php3
instead of the simple variable substitution of htsearch itself.
Not knowing a whole lot about the workings of php3, I am saying this
simply to plant a suggestion.
It seems to me that the guts of php3 can either be put into a shared
library that is loaded by htsearch at runtime (hey, I am a Java guy
now... runtime loading of code is my life!) or it could possibly be
linked into htsearch directly.
Maybe something even more strange would be to compile/load the
functionality of htsearch into php3 itself. (I've seen all kinds of
different database bindings for php3, so why not htsearch?)
Anyway... Back to the real world. :-)
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Andrew Scherpbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Contigo Software <http://www.contigo.com/>
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