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

[Chris McAvoy]

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On 4/5/06, jason gessner <jason at multiply.org> wrote:
> wow.  someone needs more coffee before operating heavy email machinery....
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> -jason
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> On Apr 5, 2006, at 10:49 AM, jason gessner wrote:
> thanks!
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> :)
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> -jason
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> On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Stowe, Nola wrote:
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> 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).
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> I had this idea this morning... it may be incredibly stupid..  wonder what
> you guys think..
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> 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.
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> Feasible?
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> Thanks
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