Doing some research to replace an oldish Perl-Fulltext search with something less plattform specific
(Monday 22nd July 2002)
RiSearch - website search script- simple but powerful search engine. This script is NOT meant to replace such powerful search systems like ht://Dig and Glimpse, and of course it can't compete with commercial software which costs thousands of dollars. RiSearch intended for small and medium sites with 1000-10000 files and total volume about 10-100Mb. It should be quite enough for most amateur sites. However, script is powerful enough to work with much larger number of files.
RiSearch uses platform independent binary files which can be used on any system. Therefore, it is possible to index local copy of your site on your home computer under Windows, and then use produced files on remote server.
Persistent Perl Classes
Persistent is a framework of classes that makes it easier to store
and retrieve Perl objects to and from various types of data stores. Using a
common interface that all of these classes inherit, you can store objects to
various types of data stores such as text and DBM files, relational databases,
LDAP directories and so on, all with the same programming interface. You can
also query and retrieve these objects from the various types of data stores
by using the query/search language of the native data store. The data stores
currently supported are the following: