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by Sam Guffey · in Site Feedback · 11/01/2002 (12:35 am) · 7 replies
We need this bad. I see the option in the advanced search but its grayed out.
Say Im looking for help with "renderMyPlayer" but the only post that its in is called "I cant see myself" Well the seach returns NULL, cant find term. Thus I dont find the answer.
Say Im looking for help with "renderMyPlayer" but the only post that its in is called "I cant see myself" Well the seach returns NULL, cant find term. Thus I dont find the answer.
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11/06/2002 (2:48 pm)
Or... what if there was a script on the server than ran each night and created an archive of all the messages for each forum. Then you could just download that and search it with your favorite text editor.
#4
11/06/2002 (2:53 pm)
A journaling system like that would be cool.
#5
as the reason this is not here is due to overhead on the machines...
imagine we all want to search forums would put this site to its knees
11/06/2002 (3:03 pm)
now Keith has an answer that everyone might likeas the reason this is not here is due to overhead on the machines...
imagine we all want to search forums would put this site to its knees
#6
Message to the staff. Please reconsider this. We need a fully indexed means of searching the forums archives.
Please... ;)
11/09/2002 (12:01 pm)
Like many of you, I posted a similar request. Eventually, the staff will come along and tell you something like this: "The load on the server(s) is too high with these kinds of searches going on." That said, let's get creative. I know for a fact that development would go much faster if we could do full searches for that one piece of data. Message to the staff. Please reconsider this. We need a fully indexed means of searching the forums archives.
Please... ;)
#7
It would be simple enought to move the database code to something more robust and feature rich and just a free. Firebird, the open source branch of Interbase.
It outpreforms mySQL in every case and could easily support full text searching. Problem is they only have one person that is working on the web site, and business application programming is not their speciality.
The right way to do it would be to run each message thru a indexer as it was posted or editied. Then the global search could search the index tables and rank the results quite easily.
11/09/2002 (7:17 pm)
as long as they are using mySQL as a back end it is not going to happen. Regardless what any books or anyone else says, mySQL is NOT a production quailty application.It would be simple enought to move the database code to something more robust and feature rich and just a free. Firebird, the open source branch of Interbase.
It outpreforms mySQL in every case and could easily support full text searching. Problem is they only have one person that is working on the web site, and business application programming is not their speciality.
The right way to do it would be to run each message thru a indexer as it was posted or editied. Then the global search could search the index tables and rank the results quite easily.
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