"Matt J. Avitable" wrote: > Hi, > > > I've written a search engine that searches for jobs in a database based > > on keywords. I'm assembling a string of sql and then submitting it to > > the database based on the user's search criteria. It's working but is > > It sounds like you are writing a web front end for mysql. I'm not > sure about modules on cpan about that specifically. If you wanted to get > a bit more fancy, you might try DBIx::FullTextSearch.
Thanks. I Checked out FullTextSearch on some earlier advice and it's not exactly what I'm after, but quite useful none the less. I've started using MySQL's MATCH/AGAINST with fulltext indexes instead, and it is extremelly fast (!!), but am waiting for a feature that's available in mysql 4.0 (due end of this month) that allows you to use +word and -word syntax to specify required or unwanted keywords. Also just as an asside, match/against only works with MyISAM tables so I've had to convert some of mine from InnoDB at the cost of losing transactions.
