Adding Search Functionality to Perl Applications (O'Reilly)

[Posted October 1, 2003 by cook]

Aaron Trevena illustrates web site searching techniques on O'Reilly. "If you are building a small, simple database-backed web site with only a couple of hundred records, then relatively simple SQL should be all you need. It would be trivial to add a simple and Foo_Name like '%keyword%' to the queries being used. When your needs go beyond this, there are three ways you can proceed: you can use native database full-text searching, an external search engine, or you can roll your own."

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