I need to come up with a solution for searching a directory of documents. I waill have potentially thousands of pdf files with the naming convention of customer#_filedescription.pdf . These will be images that are batch scanned offsite. The scanning company does not off a management system except for using the search function within windows, a hack at best and troublesome as the file count grows. We have looked into commercial offerings that are wondrful at document management but very labor intensive in entering in the documents and extremly expensive. I then found Knowledge tree and terracotta. Both work great at finding the documents but upload is one file at a time. They also seem to be a little overkill for our document managrment needs. What I would like to implement is a simple sytem that would search a directory and it's subdirectories and display the hyperlinks to the files in a results page. Seeing as there will be 4-6 files per customer I want to be able to search by just the customer number. Most search engine scripts that i have tried only search the contents of the pdf file and not he file name. I also tried ftpsearch which I set up but could'nt get it to return any files in the results page, always returning not find!, and support for the code in english was nowhere to be found. I now realize that I need to create the system myself in order to achieve the desired results.
Looking at the different ways to accomplish it seems that the best route is to setup a mySQL database interfaced through PHP scripts. My only problem is I have never done any coding in PHP except for making a few changes in scripts from other people.
So my questions are:
1. Is the PHP/mySQL approach the way to go?
2. Where do I start? (good books/tutorials)
Any help is appreciated.
Mark
Looking at the different ways to accomplish it seems that the best route is to setup a mySQL database interfaced through PHP scripts. My only problem is I have never done any coding in PHP except for making a few changes in scripts from other people.
So my questions are:
1. Is the PHP/mySQL approach the way to go?
2. Where do I start? (good books/tutorials)
Any help is appreciated.
Mark
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