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Site Search Without a Database

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

One of the things I have been working on recently was a search engine script for one of our clients.

Originally I figured that I would easily find a script that would do exactly what I wanted, though I did find many amazing and powerful scripts I was restricted by the fact that this particular project did not have a database to work with and setting up a database for searching through such a small project was just not necessary. So instead I found a much weaker script which searched a single directory for file names matching the search query, this was useful because from there I was able to expand its capability.

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