I’ve been looking for site indexing code to support searching my web site.\u00a0 Yes, you can certainly use Google for some of my content.\u00a0 But Google won’t typically see content that’s not linked in.\u00a0 Then there’s the data hidden away in databases instead of HTML.<\/p>\n
Looking around at this time, nothing really excites me.\u00a0 I want something fairly light weight, fast, and capable of indexing content from my HTML, PHP, blogs and photos.\u00a0 I also want something that easily integrates into the look and feel of my site, today and 2 years from now.<\/p>\n
Conceptually, I like xapian.\u00a0 There’s also the ‘omega’ package built on xapian.\u00a0 However, omega’s ‘omindex’ doesn’t work for me; I’ve got considerable textual content in PHP files and ‘omindex’ skips PHP.\u00a0 It also doesn’t handle WordPress blogs, gallery3 databases, etc.\u00a0 I’m also not terribly fond of the output of omega (though that’s not difficult to change).<\/p>\n
I’ve decided I’ll write my own indexer and search using xapian as the back end.\u00a0 In fact I’ve already written the code to index HTML and PHP files, and have a design for the code to index my blog posts.\u00a0 I have a test search program that emits simple HTML.\u00a0 All looks good so far; after indexing a handful of pages, searches yield appropriate document weights and rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been looking for site indexing code to support searching my web site.\u00a0 Yes, you can certainly use Google for some of my content.\u00a0 But Google won’t typically see content that’s not linked in.\u00a0 Then there’s the data hidden away in databases instead of HTML. Looking around at this time, nothing really excites me.\u00a0 I … <\/p>\n