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Python interface to swish-e

Thu 22 May 2003 at 01:14

SWIG rocks!

I took a look at swish-e. It doesn't have the annoying tendency to ignore any words of three characters or less. That means I can now search for Don Box.

I also now have a direct API instead of piping queries through the shell, and having to worry about the security implications of not having escaped all the shell characters properly. This means that I can do interesting queries like mark pilgrim not "mark pilgrim".

Here's the code.

Thu 22 May 2003

Cool. The indexing is slower, but seems more comprehensive.

Now all I gotta do is get the SWIG PHP interface up and running...

Posted by David Sifry at 04:31

Darn, SWIG support for PHP justisn't there yet. Lots of missing files. Looks like I'm going to have to write a daemon in perl and just connect that way. :-(

Posted by David Sifry at 05:30

i wrote a php interface for swish-e (or was it just swish?) once upon a time. it should be even easier now that there's a proper library version of swish-e. especially if you were at one of my sessions about writing php extensions at the two php-con's. i'd offer to whip one up, but don't have the hours to rub together.

other alternatives to consider are mnogosearch or mysql's full-text search (which is what i use on my site).

Posted by jim winstead at 13:09

I found writing a PHP extension to be fairly easy, even without the benefit of going to a Jim Winstead session. ;-)

My biggest hurdle these days is logistics. The last time I checked, on Windows, a back level of VisualStudio is required to develop. On Linux an uplevel version of libtool (or somesuch) is required.

Posted by Sam Ruby at 13:22

Fri 23 May 2003

Dynamic language angst

I wonder if it's just me, or whether the community that I frequent has this on its collective consciousness, but I've been spending quite a bit of time wondering about the benefits of dynamically typed languages. Sam Ruby pointed me to SWIG, which...

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