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Re: [PHP3] querying multiple fields of database From: Colin Viebrock (cmv <email protected>)
Date: 01/22/99

> > If I start putting one of these in,
> > I won't end up disappointed cause they can
> > look through database tables and also HTML pages..
>
> Out of the box, engines such as SWISH, htdig, and Glimpse cannot query a
> MySQL database. But there are things you can do.

Besides the options already presented, consider this:

Say you have a database of music artists, and such. You can search the site and find that
info on the artist you're looking for is at http://www.site.com/artists/show_artist.php3?id=4

Ht://Dig will index pages with query strings. So if the information in your database is
available on web-pages (which it probably is, otherwise why can people search for it), then
this will work.

You can even get fancy and parse the HT://dig results in PHP. I did this at www.mcbinch.com,
to handle search results that require different frame sets.

- colin 

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