artist has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have linux box which has search engine, providing search results on command line, and I have to integrate that with the web server. No database involved. I would appreciate the suggestions on followings.

Thanks,
aritst.

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Re: Search Enigne Integration
by matija (Priest) on Apr 09, 2004 at 15:54 UTC
    You don't want much, do you? :-)
    How to call the search engine results from the CGI program? (system commands to use)
    `` (backticks) comes to mind as the most appropriate command - it will return the output of the system command as it's value
    How I can display the results page by page?
    If you need to show the Mth set of N results, ask the search engine for the first M*N results, and throw away the (M-1)*N results you don't need.
    How I can call the search program from different machine?
    <math joke><Fermat>I have a great solution for that, but unfortunately, this margin is too short for it.</Fermat></math joke>
    What mechanism I should choose to display the search results? (HTML::Template is in mind)
    Go with that instinct - that's what I would do.
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