a search engine on a cd?
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- quincyglenn
this question is for the best and brightest and maybe some cleaver individuals to. is there a way to build a search engine for a cdrom? any tutorials or links would be appreciated. thanks in advanced.
- mitsu0
ok is this search engine to reside on the CD and search files also located on the CD?
- quincyglenn0
the cdrom is setup as a website for distrubution and there needs to be a way to search through a quite a bit of pages. this can done @ a simple level, no bells and whistles.
- mitsu0
do the the cds contents need to be accessible through a browser?
does this have to work on both windows and mac os?
- sp0
sure, there are a number of ways, depending the location of the content you wish to search.
but they can be built in delphi, director, flash, or even html/javascript...(although the latter is a poor substitute for a real app).
i know flashkit has a nice xml based, flash search engine that would probably work for a cdrom app.
and, with delphi, it is possible to build 'static' databases that will work confined on a cdrom (save for the fact you can't add or edit the db while on the cd) so you can build both the front end and backend for a cdrom, with search capabilities - if the db is that large.
i have built pricing software that functions solely on cd...the database was like 300 meg, so we had to have a way of looking up product id, prices, etc.
so, yes, its possible.
- quincyglenn0
possible. okay thats good. any documentation on this being done in delphi or flash. i can probably do it in xml but i want to make sure i have explored all possibilities. thanks sp and all other intelligences. this cdrom will have to work on mac and pc for all audiences of course.
- sp0
if the product is web based, as in html, and the user has to use it via browser, i would just find a decent javacsript one.
probably be found at http://www.hotscripts.com under javascript.
the flash one would work as well.
no need to go delphi if the contents of the cd is just html and such. would be overkill, if you ask me.
since the browser handles the cdrom activity, javascript will work client side.