I'm not sure if this has already been covered, I couldn't find anything by searching the forum ...

I am working towards having several topic specific directories (all running their own copy of Links V2) and wondered if it would be possible to search them all at once?

I would like to create a 'hub' to show people the various directories, and offer them a search facility from the hub that will query each site and return maybe the top 10 matches, thus:

Results from Directory Name:

$Results 1-10

----- Horizontal Rule -----

Results from Next Directory Name:

$Results 1-10

----- Horizontal Rule -----

Results from Third Directory Name:

$Results 1-10

etc ...

Now I realise that would probably need a separate search script with the individual locations to all the site names, links.db, url.db, categories.db, etc. but would it be possible?

Thanks for any replies.

All the best
Shaun

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Shaun Hague
Webmaster - Qango.com
http://www.qango.com/central/

Point of clarification...The search script in LINKS only searches LINKS.DB. It does not search url.db or categories.db.

To what you want to do would be quite intensive on server resources in terms of opening multiple files and printing data from multiple files in one script.

Just wanted to give you a heads-up!

Regards,

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Eliot,

Quite right if you're just searching one links directory, but I want to search several different ones, e.g.;

Qango.com
Qango Auto World
Qango Revenue Street
etc.

I assumed you would need to reference the different categories.db files for each one in the search results (as they all have different cats and subcats) and that jump.cgi would need to know which links.db file the ID=xx is coming from (as the links will be from multiple databases), therefore the different url.db file references also.

I thought it would be challenging - but maybe its just too big an idea?


All the best
Shaun

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Shaun Hague
Webmaster - Qango.com
http://www.qango.com/central/

Learn about Perl and grep and you may find a solution on your own.



Regards,

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Eliot Lee
Anthro TECH,L.L.C
www.anthrotech.com
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I thought it was a big challenge

Thanks anyway!


All the best
Shaun

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Shaun Hague
Webmaster - Qango.com
http://www.qango.com/central/

Hey Quango!

Did you ever get a a script like this or wrote it yourself?

I need a script like this badly!!!!

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Gian

Gian,

I gave up on the idea - it just sounded like too much work and I don't have the time right now to experiment with it

... and its Qango - no 'u' in it

All the best
Shaun

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Shaun Hague
Webmaster - Qango.com
http://www.qango.com/central/

Sorry about that....

that is a shame cause i converted links into a full fledged news generator so i wanted the script to search both the news adn the directory...oh well

Thanks Again

Gian