Adding a search to a site

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:08:14 +0100,
FatBlokeOnBikepins (AT) pinsmother-truckers (DOT) co.uk wrote:

Where do I start to look about indexing our site and providing its own
search engine - just started using php to try to get the site under
control. - I took it over just over a year ago and am fighting it
everyday.
As I may be in the same sort'v position shortly, can I pick your brains? - what did you
find yourself doing mainly, and/or in what order? (VERY broad question, and I appreciate
that every situation is different, but anything you can suggest would be welcome.)
TIA.
Doh. where does one start. - only now am I able to start automating

the site. For one year, I was not allowed to change anything other
than content - none of which was databased.

Constantly having to re-write the home page/index/sitemap/fix broken
links because all pages were hard coded with the same menu, all pages
had the same roll over events / images.

The site was written very precisely so that every page looked the same
- 26 a-z buttons - 26 a-z hover buttons 26 a-z button pressed buttons.
Not to mention the active menu /hover/pressed buttons.

Took me a year just to get most of the pages 'A' [SENDA / DDA]
complient.

AND, global replace was not an option...

The one area I am glad about is the ability to use include files and a
database of information that can be extracted.

Watch out for dynamic pages that ought to be dynamic static pages to
help withserver strain - does the data change often enough to need to
be dynamic or can it wait for an hour or 12 - use copy a page to
generate static copies of the dynamic pages and update using cron when
appropriate.

I am still a beginner at this - check the library, post explicit
questions AND - HAVE FUN!!!, Learn from your mistakes - NO 1, learn
how to include base files.

"Toby A Inkster"

Thanks to the numerous people who have pointed this out. Seems to be a
bizarre bug in IE's XML parsing engine, but I *think* I have found a
workaround. Could somebody with IE please compare:

http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/

with:

http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/article-old.php

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(Win98, IE6) -- Both pages give an error message right now. Here's the
message:

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using CSS style sheet. Please correct the error and
then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

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W

Toby A Inkster wrote:

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:52:49 +0100, Titus A Ducksass wrote:

Parameter entity must be defined before it is used. Error processing
resource 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd'. Line 85,
Position 2

%xhtml-prefw-redecl.mod;
-^

Thanks to the numerous people who have pointed this out. Seems to be a
bizarre bug in IE's XML parsing engine, but I *think* I have found a
workaround. Could somebody with IE please compare:

http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/

with:

http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/article-old.php

look the same here (ie6/sp1) both disply the error page complaining about
line 85

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