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Webinator Example Scripts
Webinator 2 is written in Texis Web Script, which provides a
far more flexible way to modify or even completely redesign your site's
Webinator search. Texis Web Script is a powerful HTML server-side
programming environment that enables a designer to easily create,
deploy, and maintain Web based applications. It tightly integrates into
one package three of the most needed entities:
- An object enabled SQL RDBMS (Texis)
- Concept Based Text Retrieval (Metamorph)
- A CGI-scripting language and compiler (Vortex)
Texis Web Script extends HTML with programming capabilities which are
directed towards the most commonly performed Web activities. This
extended HTML language is called Vortex. Vortex HTML is compiled into
P-code similar to Java. Execution of this P-code is very fast
and efficient in contrast to interpreted script languages like Perl, and
can easily support the demands of very highly hit Web servers.
Below are some example scripts for use with Webinator databases: a
few alternate search interfaces, and admin utilities. For a quick
summary of all Texis Web Script and SQL commands, see the
Quick Reference
page. For full details, see the
Webscript manual
and the Texis manual.
User Interface Examples
- Webinator 2.5 Search
- The standard Webinator 2 search interface that comes with the
distribution. It provides the Webinator look and feel. It is
customizable by downloading
the script and modifying it to suit your needs.
This script is a
bit complex since it provides so much back-compatibility; one of the
scripts below may be an easier starting point for your own custom
interface.
- AltaVista Clone
- A simple search script along the lines of AltaVista's search interface.
- View Source
Download
- Verity Clone
- Another small (under 100 lines) script modeled after
Verity's Search 97 interface.
- View Source
Download
- Lycos Clone
- A Lycos look-alike search.
- View Source
Download
Other Useful Scripts
- Webinator 2 Walker
- An admin script for maintaining Webinator 2 databases. It lets you
create, walk & index databases, view log files, and update
profiles.
- View Source
Download
- Meta Search Engine & Parser
- This allows you to create a metasearch engine similar to those found
at Dogpile.com or Metacrawler.com. A parser generator is available
to help you create new kinds of Metasearches as well.
- View Source
Download
- Fast Adhoc Web Log Statistics Report
- This tool is a very quick way to generate reports from your
web-server log file. It shows: total hits, hits by host, hits by
URL, hits by referrer, and hits by browser type. It can be used in
real-time to see action on your server from a number different
perspectives.
- View Source
Download