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Search Function

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So, I've been wanting to write a search script in PHP or Ruby for a while now, but don't know where to start. I think the main problem would be initiating a function that could look through files securely for keywords, but I'm not entirely sure how to do it.

Ideally, I would love to write it in Ruby, but am not sure how to get that running actually on my site. So help there would be appreciated also.
 
Wish I could help you there. All I can say is that Google offers a pretty good custom search service. You probably knew that though, didn't you?
 
Oh lordy.

Generally what you do is feed all of your documents into a fulltext indexer and let it take care of the actual searching for you. Look at Sphinx or Xapian.
 
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