Jul 18, 2008

Zend_Search_Lucene: amazing

I was always looking for a tool that enabled me to develop a search engine like Gooooogle. I don't like to put search on any website who direct users to google and google search pages for them. I was always looking to develop a search program that index all my website pages and when someone search a word or phrase, he/she find all the pages on my website with that word or phrase.
Although lot of websites provide the ability to search product or services they offer. The search is simple and limited because it only search the database not the website pages. however i haven't seen any which facilitate visitors to search their website pages.
Today, however I found solution in the form of Zend_Search_Lucene. It's based on the apache lucene(I don't have knowledge of apache lucene).
With the help of Zend_Search_Lucene you can crawel all your pages. Once the pages all crawled, the contents on your webiste are stored in the filesystem.
And later when someone search on your site you can programmatically retrieve those information and show them on the page.
I'll once again appraciate Zend Framework team for doing such a fabolous job.
Thanks Zend Team

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