I was wondering if any of you have any thoughts on the implementation of a 'search-function' on a website. It would only be a fairly simple input field and some ranked search results. The website content comes directly from the database btw.
So far I've used and come up with some scenario's: * Simple 'LIKE' clause and a query. Works fairly well, however ranking is not really an option and PDFs etc are not searched at all of course. * Full-Text search (MS-SQL 2000). Has some cool features, ranking is great, however only searches on complete words, complete phrases or words starting with a certain prefix. Some of the more advanced options such as FORMSOF, NEAR etc, are not used at all since it's only a simple HTML-input field. * Verity: In short: I hate it. I've worked with it in CF5 and found it to be error-prone, not really maintenance-friendly and giving crappy results. I haven't used it on CF6, so it may have improved (please tell me if it has :-) ). I don't have CF7 (CF6) so the added categorization-functions are not available btw. Now that I think about it, maybe I should give Verity another shot (especially since it searches the PDFs etc as well).. But maybe someone else has a better idea? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:252045 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
