At 04:54 PM 1/16/99 -0500, Susan Duncan wrote:
>Jack Killpatrick wrote:
>
>> Problem is, I don't want to do a text search of the database. I have a set
>> of CF templates, some of which will load depending on form field input from
>> the previous page. As a result, I can't index the "results" page, no matter
>> what. That I can live with. On the other hand, I have a number of templates
>> that load content from the database and *can* be indexed,
since there are no
>> form parameters that are used to load them. And on those pages are links
>> essentially back to the same template, but that will load different content
>> (links have something like page_ID=123, with 123 being a variable - the
>> variables come from the db). I need an app that will load the template,
>> index it's content, then read the links on it and "load" those
"pages" (same
>> url with a query string tagged on) and index those "pages".
>
>Are you looking to make the content in those pages searchable or
are you trying
>to create a site index? If you want to make the content searchable, then you
>don't need to index the result page, but make the content in your database
>searchable so that when it finds the right content it display
>"yourpage.cfm?pageid=123". How it's done in the background is
not relevant to
>the user who will simply see the page that they wanted.
>
>A site index could be more complicated. Any of the ones I've
tried choke on the
>number of pages that get generated from our site :(
If you are on a Unix platform (or have access to one) you could
try HT/DIG (http://www.htdig.org/) It handles our site with
13,000+ pages without burping.
Matt Soffen
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