Posted by Steve on 11/09/07 02:22

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Y6mdnQo6xrC1J67anZ2dnUVZ_tXinZ2d@comcast.com...
> Animesh K wrote:
>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>> Animesh K wrote:
>>>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That's not easy. Are you keeping the articles in a database or text
>>>>> files? If the former, you can search the database.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To keep the problem simpler, let's assume that each article has
>>>> tags/authors/topic and it is stored in database.
>>>>
>>>> One can view this as a graph-theoretic problem (with the graph being
>>>> computed by php and stored in a database). But doing it in an efficient
>>>> way would be interesting.
>>>>
>>>> Scanning the article for probable keywords is the next (and much
>>>> harder) step :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for answering,
>>>> Animesh
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK, then you need to be in a database newsgroup. How to efficiently
>>> search a database is not a PHP problem.
>>>
>>
>> It is neither a database problem, nor a php problem. It is an algorithmic
>> problem, but it *is* implemented by a few websites running scripts
>> similar to Php.
>>
>> I asked here because someone may be knowing by experience.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Animesh
>>
>
> And this group is for PHP coding problems, not esoteric algorithms.
>
> So this isn't the right group, and now you're saying a database group
> isn't the right one.
>
> Guess it's off to the library for you.

what is your major malfunction today, jerry?

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