Re: Projects

[Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@suse.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Aaron D. Turner wrote:

> >   This will make it more flexible for us. In addition to that, a DB is
> >   searchable by it's very own nature :)
> 
> But not searchable via ht://dig.  We *need* fuzzy logic if we want to
> attract newbies who don't know how to spell things.

AFAIK, MySQL understands SQL queries where you could use the keywords
"LIKE" and "SOUNDEX". Isn't this something similar? It might not be as
good as a real fuzzy search...

> > create something similar for our internal purposes. I wonder if it might
> > be possible to get some more help from my people here to pull on one
> > string. I have to check out the status of our work here.
> 
> Sounds like a plan.

Unfortunately, the guy was not here today. I'll try again.

> > Do you think it would be possible to make it based on a database? How do
> > you store the data right now? Flat files? Which Language do you use?
> 
> It's all Perl and files are stored as the HTML files themselves.  
> Fill out form->fully formatted HTML entry.  If we used a Perl SQL
> module it should be a piece-o-cake to output into a DB- though I'm
> still not sure I like it, unless someone knows a fast fuzzy logic
> module???

We could still generate plain HTML files out of the database, which could
then be indexed by ht://dig. Kind of perverse, though :)

[FRAMES]

> > Should we vote about this subject?
> 
> Sounds good- but everyone should read that article on frames first.

You have my vote: No frames, please.

Bye,
	LenZ

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