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

jason gessner jason at multiply.org
Wed Apr 5 12:05:43 PDT 2006


Hurray indeed!  ;)

And that someone should really spend part of his birthday working on  
his yapc proposals.  :)

-jason

On Apr 5, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Chris McAvoy wrote:

> It's someone's special Perl Birthday today!
>
> Hurray!
>
> On 4/5/06, jason gessner <jason at multiply.org> wrote:
>> 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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