Can you used aspd to develop a search engine for your site?

[Travis]

Is it possible to use aspd to create a search engine to search a web site? if so where can i find information about setting this up?

[John]

Hi Travis,

The only way I can think of is to create a database with two fields:

URL and Contents.

The URL would be the URL of each file on your system, and the Contents
would be a "memo" or varchar field that contains the contents of each file.
You'd simply copy each file into your database then your users could
search it for anything and you'd use dbMagicCell to make an HREF to actually
launch the file.

You could even add fields for "Last Updated" or "Date Created", even
"Security Level" where your search engine would be able to retrieve and
sort on these fields.

Let us know if you go this way and if it works.

Take care,
John



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Travis at 6/9/00 9:18:01 AM

Is it possible to use aspd to create a search engine to search a web site? if so where can i find information about setting this up?