Sphider-plus version 2.2 - The PHP Search Engine




Sphider-plus is a search engine based on the scripts of original Sphider.




[ About ]

173 new features (additional mods, functions, template designs and debugging)
have been added to the original Sphider. For details about all the improvements
and changes, please read the Documentation section.






[ Main features ]

Item Description
UTF-8 support Index and search for Chinese, Cyrillic, Georgian, Hebrew etc. charsets.
Media support Index and search for images, audio and video. EXIF and ID3 information are also indexed and herewith become searchable, thumbnails for images, open the media with player software.
RDF, RSD, RSS and Atom feed support Index and search of feed content, inclusive RDF 'Dublin Core' tags. Obey / ignore 'preferred' tags in RSD feeds.
Follow / ignore CDATA directives.
Various search modes Search with wildcards, Tolerant search, Search strict, Search only in one domain, Search for all links of a site, Search for media (link-specific).
Result cache Extremely reduced response time for queries already cached. Controller to keep the 'Most Popular Queries' always in cache. Separate caches for text and media results. Admin configurable.
Different sort modes
for result listing
Admin selectable: -By relevance (weight %) -By hit counts in full text -Most popular links on top -By indexdate -By URL names -Main URL (domain) on top -Like Google (Top 2 per URL)
Same results for queries with and without quotes Admin selectable; will deliver the same results for queries like:
d'information <-> information and dei'largi <-> largi
Admin selectabe: equalization for different quotes like:  '  `  ´
Extensive user statistics Most popular text links, Most popular media links, User IP, Country code, Host name, Last queried, etc.
Multiple database support Individual config and activation of databases for Admin, Search User and Suggest URL User. Support of multiple table sets in each db, MySQL query cache, individual index for each db, individual or bulk search in predefined databases.
Segmentation of Chinese and Korean words Will divide phrases like 帽子和服装 into the base words 帽子 and 和 and 服装 , so that all will become searchable.
Index of password protected sites Index also .htacces protected sites (basic authorization).
Up to 3 different zones could be registered and will be indexed.
Index framesets
and iframes
If enabled, both options will index html and image frames.
Not available for dynamically reloaded frames (e.g. JavaScript).
Follow redirections and cannonical links Automatical forwarding for the indexer.
Index of ZIP compressed files and archives Supports compressed (X)HTML, XML and also PDFs, all kind of feeds, frames and iframes in archives.
Links found in the compressed files are followed.
Included PDF converter Converting also non-Latin text like Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese, Greece and Hebrew documents. Configurable for Windows, Linux/Unix operating systems.
Debug mode Offering detailed information during index/re-index:
New links, keywords, frames and media found per link.
Follow Sitemap files If available sitemap.xml as well as gzip compressed files will be used to follow the links of a site. If  <sitemapindex . . . >
is detected also multiple Sitemap files are processed.
Erase & Re-index Individual (site specific) or bulk update of database.
User URL suggest User may suggest new sites to become part of database.
With Admin approval, reject and banned domains manager.

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