Jason Allen wrote: > Now that I'm nearly there, I'd like to start reviewing my options for > building a search engine for the site. Are there any certain best > practices? Links you can point me out to? I'm hoping to start with > coldfusion+MS SQL specific search ideas. Is there anything with OpenBD > that can help me design this? > >
Other than the search capabilities of your database, what OpenBD would offer is the underlying CFCOLLECTION, CFINDEX, and CFSEARCH capabilities that are powered by Lucene. http://wiki.openbluedragon.org/wiki/index.php/CFSEARCH http://wiki.openbluedragon.org/wiki/index.php/CFCOLLECTION http://wiki.openbluedragon.org/wiki/index.php/Compatibility:SupportedTagDifferences#CFINDEX Lucene can be used to index database content, files, or the web site itself, and would offer perhaps a bit simpler and more performant search than querying the database directly since this would be a pre-indexed full-text search. Hope that helps. Depending on your database it may also offer full-text search capabilities as well. Matt -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://mpwoodward.posterous.com identi.ca/Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
