Re: Demo of Sputnik with LuaUsers content

["Leo Razoumov" <slonik.az@...>]

On 2/24/08, Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Are you familiar with PmWiki's internal implementation? Looking at
>  pmwiki-2.2.0-beta65 scripts directory, there is no obvious 'search'
>  module. Would you know by any chance where/how is the search
>  implemented?

I just looked into PmWiki code and it seems that all search
functionality is in the file "scripts/pagelist.php". To optimize the
speed for large wikis PmWiki maintains a cache "page index".

Hope it helps.
--Leo--








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>  Nanoki itself, in addition to various navigation mechanisms, provides
>  title search. The search is implemented as a trie:
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>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie
>  http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/Trie.lua
>  http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/WikiSearch.lua
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>  For example, looking for 'mac'...
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>  http://svr225.stepx.com:3388/search?q=mac
>  feed://svr225.stepx.com:3388/search.xml?q=mac
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>  ... would yield thinks like 'Automated Teller Machine', 'Enigma
>  Machine', 'Nicobar Long Tailed Macaque', etc...
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>  While such mechanism could be extended to cover the page content as
>  well, most wiki do not have enough content to make it worthwhile. And
>  if they do, they would be better off using a proper text search engine
>  library such as Lucene, Xapian or such. Or rely on an external search
>  engine such as Google or Yahoo.
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>  My own preference would be for a Lua implementation/binding of/to
>  Lucene. But that would be a rather involved project :)
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>  Cheers,
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>  PA.
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