[Chicago-talk] www::mech, simple search engine idea?
jason gessner
jason at multiply.org
Wed Apr 5 08:49:20 PDT 2006
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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