How do I search TEXT in web folders and pages

aatayyab · December 30th, 2005, 09:39 AM

hi,

i have a website purely in TEXT format in shape of web pages .HTML and in many sub-folders. i want to search the text in PHP and display the resulting page links which contain that specific search string. how can i do it in PHP?

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Amir Ali Tayyab
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pmnghi · January 9th, 2006, 12:03 AM

Hello
I under your problem
you should use the getfile() (PHP4) to get an entire content of a file ( or a url file ) and save it to a variables
Now, you know what to do next .... ?
if it doesnt work, please reply to me

aatayyab · January 9th, 2006, 01:55 AM

Sure, it might be easy. however, my problem is that i am very new in PHP and i don't have one page, i have about 1,000 html text pages with lengths more than 50 or so A4 size. so, kindly suggest me some PHP script from start to beging to search the whole text in the site. thanks,

amir

Best Regards,

Amir Ali Tayyab
IT Consultant since 1988
http://softwarepk.com
aatayyab@yahoo.com
Cell: 92-333-4779799
Address: 49-MZ, Central Plaza, Garden Town, Lahore, Pakistan

anshul · January 9th, 2006, 04:48 AM

Hi,

You could use any of many ready free scripts available from SourceForge or HotScripts. Or you may wait to learn and write the script.

`~@#\^%&*/\.<.\/-|+|_!:;..=?>
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Mantis · January 9th, 2006, 11:39 AM

IF you have has many html pages has that doing a search system in php is very unlikely to work.

There is a timeout on the server which is very likely to be hit when the php is still scanning the documents. which mean: this page timeout please press refresh blabla...

Alternatively you could I suppose have a system which scan once all the documents and build a search result file but its still going to be very slow.

I know its not what you had in mind but if you can either transfer all the html documents into a database or only the text part into a database.

Then php send a search request @ the database and that is more or less immediate.

aatayyab · January 13th, 2006, 04:51 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by anshul
Hi,

You could use any of many ready free scripts available from SourceForge or HotScripts. Or you may wait to learn and write the script.

`~@#\^%&*/\.<.\/-|+|_!:;..=?>
Students' finances

hi,

could you please do that for me and point me towards any of such free scripts out there?

amir

Best Regards,

Amir Ali Tayyab
IT Consultant since 1988
http://softwarepk.com
aatayyab@yahoo.com
Cell: 92-333-4779799
Address: 49-MZ, Central Plaza, Garden Town, Lahore, Pakistan

aatayyab · January 13th, 2006, 04:52 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by Mantis
IF you have has many html pages has that doing a search system in php is very unlikely to work.

There is a timeout on the server which is very likely to be hit when the php is still scanning the documents. which mean: this page timeout please press refresh blabla...

Alternatively you could I suppose have a system which scan once all the documents and build a search result file but its still going to be very slow.

I know its not what you had in mind but if you can either transfer all the html documents into a database or only the text part into a database.

Then php send a search request @ the database and that is more or less immediate.

sure, i am ready to do that and convert them into the text field of the mysql db. can you guide me step-by-step how to do it?

amir

Best Regards,

Amir Ali Tayyab
IT Consultant since 1988
http://softwarepk.com
aatayyab@yahoo.com
Cell: 92-333-4779799
Address: 49-MZ, Central Plaza, Garden Town, Lahore, Pakistan

Mantis · January 15th, 2006, 01:08 PM

Sorry mate but thats around 2 weeks of work.