[Typo3-dev] indexsearch - extending or rebuilding?

[dan frost]

Martin T. Kutschker wrote:
> dan frost wrote:
> 
>> I'm just about to start on either an extension or a rebuild of index 
>> search. I need it to add other things to the search and to filter by 
>> other things (in this case, legislation mentioned in a document).
>>
>> Has anyone done stuff like this before? How has any of you changed 
>> index search to customise it - that is, why do you change it?
> 
> 
> Whatever you do, some ideas on a search extension:
> 
> *) A filter API that allows other extensions to act as plug.ins rather 
> than hardcoded support for word, etc
> 
Yea - this is what i'm getting at / thinking.

> *) A search-db api that allows to store "external data" in the search 
> db. So eg a web-crawler can index external web pages that can be found 
> within the search-db (the idea is to have a Typo3 installation with 
> integration of legacy content on other web servers).
> 
Nice idea. I'll try it.

> *) Improved charset support for all iso-8859-* charsets and utf-8
> 
Oooo... haven't looked into char-sets yet.

> AFAIK the indexed search needs some changes for charsets. But I have no 
> clue how complex any of the above changes are to justify a modification 
> or a start (more or less) from scratch.

Thanks for your ideas.

dan