LXII. mnoGoSearch Functions
Introduction
These functions allow you to access the mnoGoSearch (former
UdmSearch) free search engine. mnoGoSearch is a full-featured
search engine software for intranet and internet servers,
distributed under the GNU license. mnoGoSearch has a number
of unique features, which makes it appropriate for a wide
range of applications from search within your site to a specialized
search system such as cooking recipes or newspaper search,
FTP archive search, news articles search, etc. It offers full-text
indexing and searching for HTML, PDF, and text documents.
mnoGoSearch consists of two parts. The first is an indexing
mechanism (indexer). The purpose of the indexer is to walk
through HTTP, FTP, NEWS servers or local files, recursively
grabbing all the documents and storing meta-data about that
documents in a SQL database in a smart and effective manner.
After every document is referenced by its corresponding URL,
meta-data is collected by the indexer for later use in a search
process. The search is performed via Web interface. C, CGI,
PHP and Perl search front ends are included.
More information about mnoGoSearch can be found at http://www.mnogosearch.ru/.
Note: This extension is not available on Windows platforms.
Requirements
Download mnoGosearch from http://www.mnogosearch.ru/ and
install it on your system. You need at least version 3.1.10
of mnoGoSearch installed to use these functions.
Installation
In order to have these functions available, you must compile
PHP with mnoGosearch support by using the --with-mnogosearchoption.
If you use this option without specifying the path to mnoGosearch,
PHP will look for mnoGosearch under /usr/local/mnogosearch
path by default. If you installed mnoGosearch at a different
location you should specify it: --with-mnogosearch=DIR.
Note: PHP contains built-in MySQL access library, which
can be used to access MySQL. It is known that mnoGoSearch
is not compatible with this built-in library and can work
only with generic MySQL libraries. Thus, if you use mnoGoSearch
with MySQL, during PHP configuration you have to indicate
the directory of your MySQL installation, that was used
during mnoGoSearch configuration, i.e. for example: --with-mnogosearch
--with-mysql=/usr.
