women's center stuff

Mark W. Manley (mwm3q@jm.acs.Virginia.EDU)
Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:47:30 -0500

Hello women's center people, I have a prototype for your search
engine completed and ported over to minerva. The script running
the search is called "search.pl" and is inside the public_html
directory. A sample form that uses the script is called
searchform.html. You can access the form through Netscape with
the URL "http://www.virginia.edu/~womenctr/searchform.html".
This is a bare bones page that just demonstrates what the script
does and works and returns. Please address any comments to me
directly and not the class list.

The data file that you all need to construct is called "data.dat"
(which is not set in stone, just in the script and can be easily
changed). The file format is a text file that uses double-colon
delimitation. In English, it means that a :: separates each of
the fields. A sample is already on minerva for you searching
pleasure. The order of the fields is as follows:

address of page::name of organization::telephone
number::address::keywords (all on one line!). The address of
page is if there is already a page on minerva. For example, if
you had a page on alcoholism called alcohol.html in the
public_html directory, then all you would have to type is
alcohol.html in the first field, not a complete link. When the
engine returns info, the title of the organization becomes the
link.

If you have any additional questions or comments, please email
me.

MM