NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Snyder]

Andy Crain wrote:

>My problem in a nutshell: How do I use, or at least
>roughly emulate, fulltext indexing in a db-portable
>way? 
>

You could implement search as a web service (pretend it's a google 
appliance), thus easing the requirement for db portability. You don't 
even need a crawler since it's your own system: documents can request 
re-indexing whenever they change.

I like the idea of extending the PEAR classes, too.