[Chicago-talk] www::mech, simple search engine idea?

[jason gessner]

thanks!

:)

-jason

On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Stowe, Nola wrote:

> Hey, you know of anything similar to www mech written in php? ..  
> although I may get the blessing to go ahead and use perl for this..  
> I could perhaps give them the "use the best tool for the job"  
> speech. So that not the real point of this (please no php flame wars).
>
> I had this idea this morning... it may be incredibly stupid..   
> wonder what you guys think..
>
> A simple site search engine..  doesn't need to be incredibly  
> complex (i.e., no OR NOT etc needed). problem is we have a somewhat  
> archaic permissions system on our pages (at least IMHO, I'd rather  
> store them in a database)... I cangrep pages for keywords and  
> figure out what pages could might match, but I need to "see the  
> page as the current user" so I know if they have permisisons. I  
> thought, if I used www::mech or similar while "logged in as" the  
> particular user doing the search, I will know if they can see the  
> page or not... and if so, return it as a search result.
>
> Feasible?
>
>
> Thanks
>
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