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From: Paul J. Lucas <pjl(at)not-real.ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov> Date: Thu May 07 1998 - 07:42:22 GMT

On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Jens Schriver wrote:

> I have been using SWISH (the old version) on my site for quite a while, but a
> month ago, my isp said it used too much cpu time, and refused to let me use
> it. I think what caused the strain was more the query.pl than the actual
> searching, but I could be wrong.
> 
> Has there been a more efficient version of query.pl been made (and if so,
> does it come with SWISH-E)?  What about SWISH++ ... perform?

	I personally have not used query.pl -- I simply wrote my own
	CGI script.  Not surprisingly, the current SWISH++ distribution
	doesn't include any CGI script: it's left as an exercise for
	the installer as it is rather trivial.

	However, the next release of SWISH++ will include a toy CGI
	script to interface SWISH++'s searcher to a web form.  The CGI
	is attached.  I don't see how such a CGI could use too much CPU
	time.  If anybody would like the required WWW library referened
	in the script, you can obtain a pre-release copy from:

		ftp://wizard.arc.nasa.gov/pub/WWW.pm

	- Paul J. Lucas
	  NASA Ames Research Center		Caelum Research Corporation
	  Moffett Field, California		San Jose, California
	  <pjl AT ptolemy DOT arc DOT nasa DOT gov>

----- search.cgi -----
#!/bin/perl
###############################################################################
#
# NAME
#
#	search.cgi
#
# SYNOPSIS
#
#	<FORM ACTION="search.cgi">
#	...
#	</FORM>
#
# DESCRIPTION
#
#	This is a toy example CGI script written in Perl 5 to show how to
#	interface SWISH++ to a web-based search form.  It uses the supplied
#	www package to parse form data.
#
# SEE ALSO
#
#	search(1), www(3)
#
###############################################################################

use lib ( "." );
#		Put the path to where the WWW library is above.
require WWW;

$SWISH_BIN =	'/home/www/swish++/bin';
#		The full path to the bin directory where you installed the
#		SWISH++ executables.

$INDEX_FILE =	'/home/www/the.index';
#		The full path to the index file to be searched through.

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

# Header HTML
print <<END;
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Search Results</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<BIG><STRONG>Search Results</STRONG></BIG>
<HR>
<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0>
END

$FORM{ search } =~ s/[^\s()*\-\w]/ /go; # zap bad chars before exposing to shell

open( SEARCH, "$SWISH_BIN/search -i $INDEX_FILE $FORM{ search } |" ) or die;
while ( <SEARCH> ) {
	my( $rank, $url, $size, $title ) = split( / /, $_, 4 );
	print <<END;
		<TR VALIGN=top><TD ALIGN=right>$rank%&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
		<TD><A HREF="$url">$title</A></TD>
END
}
close SEARCH;

# Footer HTML
print <<END;
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
END

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