[TriLUG] code for search engine

[Robert Dale]

On 1/14/07, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
> I hired an intern from the English department at NC State this semester to
> write some copy for my web site. He recommended putting in some code to do
> a local search. I am partial to LAMP yet otherwise open to suggestion.
> Does anyone have a recommendation on some code that I can plop into my web
> site for a local search function? It would be way cool to do full text
> searching. I played with PHPDig to no avail. Maybe it is looking for
> *.html and all my stuff is *.shtml. I dunno. Any help gratefully
> appreciated.

The Apache Lucene - http://lucene.apache.org/ - project might have
just the thing for you.
You can use Lucene directly  with Java or you could use their Solr -
http://incubator.apache.org/solr/ -
search server with which you can connect via xml/http so you can stay with LAMP.

-- 
Robert Dale