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PHPDN Search Feature and Your Voice

Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 12:30 pm
by jason
Okay, got a good question for you all.

What do you want to see from the PHPDN?

We are currently working on a unified search mechanism so you can search all the sites at once, and get results from each site from practically anywhere. I am also going to work on a way so you can do something like http://www.phpdn.com/search_term like on PHP.net with the http://www.php.net/function_name and it will do an automatic search.

The hope is that we can more quickly bring you what you are looking for.

I also want to include the PHP manual in this search, but I have to figure out how to do that part. All fun.

Anyways, what other things would you like to see come out of the PHPDN?

Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 4:41 pm
by hex
You can see the source for the PHP version here: http://www.php.net/urlhowto.php

And I did a little mod of it: http://www.evilwalrus.com/viewcode.php?codeEx=474

Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 10:11 pm
by fatal
In the search, i think it would be a good idea to be able to search all the PHPDN sites including the fourms.

You maybe could have like a RDF feeds of all the source/articials/tutorials avalible. But the only problem i could think of is being the sizes of the files being searched. That could lag the whole thing possible.

Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 11:01 pm
by jason
Well, granted, the search would not be blazing fast, but at the same time, it would be more conclusive.

Generally, I am looking at recieving the top 10 results from each site, and from that, taking the top 10 or 20 most relevent results and returning them to be displayed.

This means that you, the end user, will be able get the most relevent searches back.

I am also looking at a way to integrate some additional search features into NewbieNetwork itself. Once the Unified Login system can be arranged (not an easy task, let me assure you), it will be available elsewhere.

Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 2:23 am
by mydimension
what about giving a list of php coding areas that need to be covered (i.e. "we are seaking sites that cover this, this and that"). this will give current and future users an idea of what they can add to the network.