I'm facing a challenge with a customer running a site we built on a hosting environment that is quite restrictive. We used to use htdig to add search functionality, but the hoster doesn't allow execution of binaries.

I've taken a look at several search engine implementations, but so far, none match all requirements.

Among those on the list he's looked into, there's included Zend Framework's lucene search, google, and phpdig. He lists out some of the other requirements that he's looking for and asks for any suggestions that the community might have. Be sure to check out the comments for some great answers already.]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:57:28 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4477 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4477 this new tutorial from Linux.com today, the author highlights the popular PHP-based version of a site indexing tool, phpDig, and how he got it all working.

Webmasters looking to provide search capabilities for their site would do well to try out PhpDig, a Web spider and search engine written in PHP with a MySQL backend. There are other open source search engines, all of which have their own advantages. PhpDig just happens to suit the needs of my Information Technology for Greenhouses and Horticulture site. Here's how I got it working.

The tutorial goes through what phpDig is and what it's useful for, how to make a simple local installation of the software, running your first spider, and, for those of us running on a non-lcoal host, how to install it remotely.]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:12:06 -0600