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

[jason gessner]

wow.  someone needs more coffee before operating heavy email  
machinery....

-jason

On Apr 5, 2006, at 10:49 AM, jason gessner wrote:

> 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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