Microsoft Index Server class for ASP

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Introduction

My company asked me to implement a search engine function to our intranet website. They don't need too fancy one, just simply allow user to search the pages. Because our website is Microsoft based, the first thing come to my mind is Index Server. I had no experience on using Index server before, so I looked for the Internet and found some articles about it. The tutorial that made me to start my fiirst test drive of using Index Server is http://www.xefteri.com/articles/show.cfm?id=2. It contained an easy-to-follow tutorial to start. As I tried to start to use the code to my the intranet website, I found that it is not very convenient to implement. So I decided to modify it to become a class.

Here are some screen shot of this project.

Details

The class contains 5 main functions. They are:

• getArrAllData(byref msg) - return result content as an array
• getFirstLink (scriptName) - return a link to return the first page. Current file name is required.
• getPreviousLink (scriptName) - return a link to return previous page. Current file name is required.
• getNextLink (scriptName) - return a link to the next page. Current file name is required.
• getLastLink (scriptName) - return a link to the last page. Current file name is required.

To use the class, you need to instantiate the class and initialize the required value.

<P><!-- #include file="class/cls_text_search.asp" -->
<%
 dim msg
 msg = ""</P>
<P> dim arrData
 dim objTxtSearch
 set objTxtSearch = New cls_text_search
 objTxtSearch.pageTitle = "Page Title - "
 objTxtSearch.catalog = "catalogName"
 objTxtSearch.query  = Request("query")
 objTxtSearch.fileExts = "asp,html,pdf,doc,xls,ppt,txt,htm"
 objTxtSearch.ignoreFileWithPaths = "/xxx.html"
 objTxtSearch.includeFolderWithPaths = "/,/doc,/PDFs"
 objTxtSearch.recordsPerPage = "5"
 objTxtSearch.page = Request("page")
 objTxtSearch.order = Request("order")</P>
<P> on error resume next
 arrData = objTxtSearch.getArrAllData(msg)
 if err.number <> 0 then
  msg = err.description
 end if</P>
<P>%></P>

Then you can retrieve the navigation links from the class

<P>       <%
       Dim firstLink, previousLink, nextLink, lastLink
       firstLink = objTxtSearch.getFirstLink (Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME"))
       previousLink = objTxtSearch.getPreviousLink (Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME"))
       nextLink = objTxtSearch.getNextLink (Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME"))
       lastLink = objTxtSearch.getLastLink (Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME"))</P>
<P>       ' Navigation Link
       if firstLink = "" then Response.Write "First | " else Response.Write "<a href='" & firstLink & "' >First</a> | "
       if previousLink = "" then Response.Write "Previous | " else Response.Write "<a href='" & previousLink & "' >Previous</a> | "
       if nextLink = "" then Response.Write "Next | " else Response.Write "<a href='" & nextLink & "' >Next</a> | "
       if lastLink = "" then Response.Write "Last | " else Response.Write "<a href='" & lastLink & "' >Last</a>"
       %></P>

Of course, you need to extract the search result through the array variable from Index Server.

<%

        Dim strDocTitle, strFilename, strVPath, intSize, datWrite, strCharacterization, numRank
        Dim numrows, rowcounter
        numrows = UBound(arrData,2)
        '-- now loop through the records
        For rowcounter= 0 To numrows
        
         '-- row values held in variables for ease of use
         strDocTitle         = arrData(0, rowcounter)
         strFilename         = arrData(1, rowcounter)
         strVPath            = arrData(2, rowcounter)
         intSize             = FormatNumber(arrData(3, rowcounter))
         datWrite            = arrData(4, rowcounter)
         strCharacterization = arrData(5, rowcounter)
         numRank             = arrData(6, rowcounter)
    
    If IsNull(strCharacterization) Or Trim(strCharacterization) = "" Then
           strCharacterization = " "
         End If
         
         %>
         <tr><td colspan="2"></td>
          <td>
           <a href="<%=strVPath%>"><%= objTxtSearch.getCustomTitle (strDocTitle, strFilename)%></a>
          </td>
         </tr>
         <tr><td valign="top">
           <%
            Dim starslocation, NormRank, stars
        starslocation = "images/rank/"
            '-- show proper image for ranking
            NormRank = numRank/10
            If NormRank > 80 Then
              stars = "rankbtn5.gif"
            ElseIf NormRank > 60 Then
              stars = "rankbtn4.gif"
            ElseIf NormRank > 40 Then
              stars = "rankbtn3.gif"
            ElseIf NormRank > 20 Then
              stars = "rankbtn2.gif"
            Else
              stars = "rankbtn1.gif"
            End If
           '-- Chr(37) = %
           '-- write correct image and percentage ranking
           %>
           <img src="<%=starslocation & stars %>">
       <br>
           <%= NormRank & Chr(37) %>
          </td>
          <td> </td>
          <td valign="top">
           <%= strCharacterization %><br><br><i>
           <%
            '-- write file size or show error in case
            '   we have a NULL value returned
            If Trim(intSize) = "" Or IsNull(intSize) Then
              Response.Write("(size unknown) - ")
            Else
              Response.Write("size " & objTxtSearch.FileSize(intSize) & " - ")
            End If
            
            If Trim(datWrite) = "" Or IsNull(datWrite) Then
              Response.Write("(time unknown)")
            Else
              Response.Write(objTxtSearch.myFixDate(datWrite) & " GMT")
            End If
           %>
          </td>
         </tr>
         <tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr>
         <%
        Next
        %>

That's it! All logic is in the class, there is no need to modify it. And you can just reuse the class when your next project need to add a search engine function. I have included the full source code of this project, hope you will like it.

References

The Windows 2000 Indexing Service - http://www.xefteri.com/articles/show.cfm?id=2
Your free search Engine - Microsoft Indexing Server -http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/IndexingServer.asp
Adding a search facility to your website - http://www.codeproject.com/asp/indexserver.asp