Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine?

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2001

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texte = Steven,Possibly, if you have control over the output of the file, you could set upa trigger to parse (using [middle] the file and store everything into a WCdatabase. Or, you could go with Phantom as an indexing tool. However, remember thatmost indexing tools like that will index based on the meta tags, and ifthose do not exist, they will only index XX number of characters in thefile. I only tried the WC indexer a few times and had problems with it so Ibought Phantom.However, as I have just made the decision to move to Linux for my webservers, I will have a Phantom License for sale - in case you areinterested.Dale> From: Steven Jarvis > Reply-To: (WebCatalog Talk)> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:43:31> To: (WebCatalog Talk)> Subject: Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine?> > >>> I seem to remember this being discussed a while back, but I can't find>>> anything on it in the archives (I'm probably just not formulating good>>> searches, though).>>> >>> I want to be able to search files in a folder. Just a text search, like>>> you'd run on a database, but instead using files. Is there a way to do this>>> with [listfiles]?>>> >>> If someone has some functioning code they could post, that would be great,>>> too.>>> >> >> This is Yet Another Thing Best Done outside of WebCatalog(TM). Most>> modern web servers come with an indexing engine (and some, like IIS's>> should be deleted immediately ;~).>> >> Do you want to do this search once, every day, or on demand by the web>> user? This is not an idle question, since it impacts what kind of>> solution you are going to need.> > We have an indexing engine (WebSTAR Search), but it's been somewhat> problematic for us. I've found that WebCat is more dependable and> customizable. > The particular application I wanted to use WebCat for would only have to be> indexed once per day. It's for a newspaper site, and it's for searching the> classified ads from the paper, which are output by the ad manager software> as HTML files, one file per category per night. It's the only way that> software package will output the ads.> > I've been indexing that folder with WebSTAR's SearchIndexer each night, and> that works OK. I thought I might be able to put together a more robust> search with WebCat, is all.> > Thanks,> > Steven> > --> Steven Jarvis > Web Developer > sjarvis@nwaonline.net> NWAonline.net-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (dale 2001)
Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (John Peacock 2001)
Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (Kenneth Grome 2001)
Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (Brian Fries 2001)
Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (Steven Jarvis 2001)
Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (John Peacock 2001)
Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine? (Steven Jarvis 2001)

Steven,Possibly, if you have control over the output of the file, you could set upa trigger to parse (using [middle] the file and store everything into a WCdatabase. Or, you could go with Phantom as an indexing tool. However, remember thatmost indexing tools like that will index based on the meta tags, and ifthose do not exist, they will only index XX number of characters in thefile. I only tried the WC indexer a few times and had problems with it so Ibought Phantom.However, as I have just made the decision to move to Linux for my webservers, I will have a Phantom License for sale - in case you areinterested.Dale> From: Steven Jarvis > Reply-To: (WebCatalog Talk)> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:43:31> To: (WebCatalog Talk)> Subject: Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine?> > >>> I seem to remember this being discussed a while back, but I can't find>>> anything on it in the archives (I'm probably just not formulating good>>> searches, though).>>> >>> I want to be able to search files in a folder. Just a text search, like>>> you'd run on a database, but instead using files. Is there a way to do this>>> with [listfiles]?>>> >>> If someone has some functioning code they could post, that would be great,>>> too.>>> >> >> This is Yet Another Thing Best Done outside of WebCatalog(TM). Most>> modern web servers come with an indexing engine (and some, like IIS's>> should be deleted immediately ;~).>> >> Do you want to do this search once, every day, or on demand by the web>> user? This is not an idle question, since it impacts what kind of>> solution you are going to need.> > We have an indexing engine (WebSTAR Search), but it's been somewhat> problematic for us. I've found that WebCat is more dependable and> customizable. > The particular application I wanted to use WebCat for would only have to be> indexed once per day. It's for a newspaper site, and it's for searching the> classified ads from the paper, which are output by the ad manager software> as HTML files, one file per category per night. It's the only way that> software package will output the ads.> > I've been indexing that folder with WebSTAR's SearchIndexer each night, and> that works OK. I thought I might be able to put together a more robust> search with WebCat, is all.> > Thanks,> > Steven> > --> Steven Jarvis > Web Developer > sjarvis@nwaonline.net> NWAonline.net-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ dale

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