Re: php search engine recommendation?

[Steve Holdoway]

Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:01, Steve Holdoway wrote:
 

On Tue, April 5, 2005 10:02 am, Christopher Sawtell said:
   

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:39, Ian Laurenson wrote:
     

I am putting together a wiki, in DokuWiki format, about writing macros
in OpenOffice.org. The wiki is currently about 22mb of text files (and
growing).
       

http://www.htdig.org/
     

I don't think that's written in php...
   

Indeed not. 
He didn't say that he wanted something something written in php, he merely 
made the statement that there are several search tools written in php.
 

...the title of the thread is???
The htdig system is fast because it creates an index of its own which is 
accessed for the queries. The index takes quite a ling time to create and 
uses very roughly the same order of disk space as the pages it's indexing.
 

It's also written in a compiled language -  C. Even so, as you 
mentioned, I've worked on a number of sites where it wasn't possible to 
re-index in an 'overnight' window. However, older versions, which are 
still available off the website, are noted to be much faster than the 
current one.

iirc htdig builds just works "out-of-the-box".
 

once you've compiled it. A place where the Gentoo approach may well pay 
dividends.

Steve