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Verity Search
If your site has a lot of content, text files, or even Excel spreadsheets, you
may want to consider using the Verity Search Collection in ColdFusion. Verity
Collections allow you to index your site and create a “map” if you will, of your
files. Even the contents of your doc files, PDF’s, and spreadsheets. What will
really amaze you is how little it takes to set up and create.
First of all you need access to the CF administrator, or you need to have the
server administrator configure the server to index your site. If you run your
own server then this will be a snap.
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PART ONE - Configuring the server
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Open the ColdFusion administration page and log in. On the Left hand side under
“Datasources” is a link labeled “Verity Collections” Click the link.
VERITY COLLECTIONS
This is the page you will no be on. In the first section create a NAME for your
collection. This can be any name that you wish to use. I will call it “boxcar”
for now.
The PATH field is for the location you would like to store the collection file.
It is not to be confused with the location of the files you want index. Leave it
at the default setting unless you have reason to change it.
Next Click the button “Create Collection”
INDEX VERITY COLLECTIONS
The field for file extensions has a few default file types already in place,
however you may want to add other file types. Here is a list of files that are
common that you might use. Just add the appropriate extension to the list.
ASCII Text
HTML
Lotus
Rich Text Format
Microsoft word
PDF
PowerPoint
Excel
DIRECTORY PATH is the physical location of the files on your server. IE C:\www\my_site
The RECURSIVE INDEX SUB DIRECTORY check box may be checked if you want the index
to include files beneath the selected directory.
Last but not least, the RETURN URL. This is the actual path for your HTTP files.
IE. http://my_server/my_site/
It’s important to get the URL correct as this is used to create the links in
your search results.
Now click Submit, your server will now index your site.
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PART TWO – Creating the search forms
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Search_form.cfm
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<html>
<head>
<title>Search this site</title>
</head>
<body>
<strong>What would you like to search
for? </strong>
<form name="form1"
method="post" action="verity_search_results.cfm">
<p>
<input name="criteria"
type="text" id="criteria">
<input type="submit"
name="Submit" value="Submit">
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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search_results.cfm
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<!--- Define a search name and specify the COLLECTION
name used in the CF Admin.--->
<CFSEARCH NAME="search_boxcar"
COLLECTION="boxcar"
CRITERIA="#FORM.criteria#">
<html>
<head>
<title>Search Results</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Your search results </h3>
<!--- Output search results complete with score --->
<CFOUTPUT QUERY="search_boxcar">
<a href="#URL#">#Title#</a><br>
Score: #Score#<p>
</CFOUTPUT>
</body>
</html>
The key here is the CFSEARCH tag. It is the easiest search ever and no SQL
involved. However, if you want to add an SQL statement you can do more with it.
Like search you database or your query.
That’s all there is to it.
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Date added: Sat. February 1, 2003
Posted by: Mark Aplet | Views: 28094 | Tested Platforms: CF5 | Difficulty: Beginner
Best Practices
Verity Searching
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Banning the spam
Internet spam is on the rise, and more importantly spammers are targeting your sites comment forms. They are looking for the trackback urls to fool search engines into ranking their website higher in the search results. When this started to happen to me, I wanted to sent out emails to the offenders demanding that they stop. Unfortunatly the spam is being generated by bots and programs not some pimple faced kid behind a keyboard. Banning IP addresses is not enough and rarely works since intelligent spammers hide their true identity anyway. Next approach... Banning Keywords used by the offending sites. Thats where this tutorial comes in. - Date added: Wed. March 15, 2006
Improving Application Performance
One thing I am always trying to do is speed up my applications. As my site grows in size and complexity I find that I spend a fair amount of time re-coding pages because of a new technique I just learned. I wish I had learned about these techniques long before, and thereby allowing me to create more effective code. In this tutorial I'll try to explain some problem areas that I have identified, and some of the things you can do to improve performance. - Date added: Mon. January 12, 2004
Improving Application Performance (Part 2)
Not all queries can be saved as an application variable. For Queries that do not meet the checkpoints in my previous tutorial there is another way to improve performance. Query Caching is another way to save data and eliminate unnecessary queries. This is for queries that are more dynamic in nature. - Date added: Mon. January 12, 2004
Slighty better search
Someone on the forum posed a question a short while ago asking how to create a more advanced search function using a + symbol as a separator. So I created this advanced search function. This search function is just slightly better than a normal search as it adds the ability to separate two keywords with a + symbol. Lets start with the search form. - Date added: Thu. December 4, 2003
Dynamic Sorting with CFSWITCH
Quickly and easily sort and order records in your database using a cfswitch in your query. Great technique for admin areas of your site, or just allowing visitors to sort the fields they want. - Date added: Sun. August 3, 2003
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How is it scored?
Does anyone know how the 'score' value is calculated?
Posted by: Peter Bagnato
Posted on: 10/13/2004 06:30 PM
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Error there
Isnt it the form meant to go to search_results.cfm instead of variety_search_results.cfm ???
Posted by: Louis
Posted on: 02/16/2007 12:10 AM
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How do you index a database?
This is a great tutorial. However, it does not cover indexing a database. Searching a site without searching the data driving it, is not so helpful. Would you be able to add that?
Posted by: Sherry
Posted on: 05/13/2008 04:25 PM
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