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Thank you for your interest in this project. There's a lot of work to be done on these, so I would not recomend them for a production environment at this time.
So, what's all this then? Well, I needed a good search engine/web spider solution for use in my projects. I didn't want to use phpDig, so I did some searching and came across sphider. Sphider is really a great project but is highly specialized to work only with MySQL. My project uses PEAR::MDB2 as a database abstraction layer and Smarty as a templating engine, so any search feature had to support the same.
The result is this modified version of Sphider. It includes PEAR::MDB2 and Smarty so you don't need to download and configure them.
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Installation Instructions
1. Download either of the two packages above (they are the same files, compressed in different archive formats).
2. Decompress the archive into your web root.
3. Make sure a database exists for sphider to use.
4. In a web browser, navigate to the install directory. If you put the files into your website root (ex. http://www.mysite.com/ or /users/mysite/public_html/) you would go to http://www.mysite.com/install and follow the directions.
5. When you are done remove the install directory and begin spidering!
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