Poof of concept command line tool to generate file an inverted word list useful for naive search implementations.
Simple search can be implemented with an inverted word list. For small websites evaluating an pre-calculated inverted word list for search terms is reasonable straight forward. This might be useful where you have a dynamic language like PHP avialble but do not want to use a database to back the website. Likewise if the list is small enough you could even have the web browser caliculate the search results.
I have written a tool, makewordlist, that will generate two JSON files, files.json and words.json, from a provided path (e.g. /my/htdocs). You can then read these two files in PHP and find which files contain the words you are searching for.
Commands to run--
go build makewordlist.go
./makewordlist test-data
php demo-simplesearch.php otto javascript persona fred JaneThis PHP search demo should return something like--
These are the pages that have some of the words (i.e. otto, javascript, persona):
Page: test-data/index.html
Page: test-data/index.html
Page: test-data/persona-demo.html