Tutorials & articles written by Thomas Nunninger

Creating a Search Engine

On a big website or intranet, retrieving relevant content is key to site usability. In addition to a navigation structure based on the document hierarchy, most large sites have an internal search engine that accesses indexed content. In this article we look at the challenges involved with creating an internal search engine. This article is also an overview of the current research at eZ Systems in this area. As part of a research project, I have evaluated different relevance-based ranking concepts and have written a basic test implementation using different approaches.

eZ debug

Timing: Jan 18 2025 15:07:43
Script start
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Module start 'community'
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Module end 'community'
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Main resources:

Total runtime0.1937 sec
Peak memory usage4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries154

Timing points:

CheckpointStart (sec)Duration (sec)Memory at start (KB)Memory used (KB)
Script start 0.00000.0054 588.6563172.9766
Module start 'community' 0.00540.0483 761.6328431.5391
Module end 'community' 0.05370.1400 1,193.1719407.7422
Script end 0.1936  1,600.9141 

Time accumulators:

 Accumulator Duration (sec) Duration (%) Count Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache0.00381.9464200.0002
Check MTime0.00150.7948200.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection0.00050.273610.0005
Mysqli_queries0.135970.16381540.0009
Looping result0.00180.90801490.0000
Template Total0.178792.220.0893
Template load0.00110.561620.0005
Template processing0.177591.648420.0888
Template load and register function0.00010.047010.0001
Override
Cache load0.00070.360640.0002
states
state_id_array0.00110.581310.0011
state_identifier_array0.00030.153210.0003
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute name0.00070.366010.0007
Fetch class attribute can translate value0.00060.317110.0006
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute0.00000.002610.0000
XML
Image XML parsing0.00030.147110.0003
General
dbfile0.00422.1498180.0002
String conversion0.00000.002610.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

CSS/JS files loaded with "ezjscPacker" during request:

CacheTypePacklevelSourceFiles
CSS0extension/community/design/community/stylesheets/ext/jquery.autocomplete.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/scrollbars.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/tabs.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/roadmap.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/content.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/star-rating.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/syntax_and_custom_tags.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/buttons.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/tweetbox.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css
extension/bcsmoothgallery/design/standard/stylesheets/magnific-popup.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/star_rating.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/libs/fontawesome/css/all.min.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/main.v02.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/main.v02.res.css
JS0extension/ezjscore/design/standard/lib/yui/3.17.2/build/yui/yui-min.js
extension/ezjscore/design/standard/javascript/jquery-3.7.0.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.ui.core.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.ui.widget.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.easing.1.3.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.ui.tabs.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.hoverIntent.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.popmenu.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jScrollPane.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.mousewheel.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.cycle.all.js
extension/sevenx/design/simple/javascript/jquery.scrollTo.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.cookie.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/ezstarrating_jquery.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.initboxes.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/app.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/twitterwidget.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/community.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/roadmap.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/ez.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/ezshareevents.js
extension/sevenx/design/simple/javascript/main.js

Templates used to render the page:

UsageRequested templateTemplateTemplate loadedEditOverride
1community/articles.tpl<No override>extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/community/articles.tplEdit templateOverride template
1content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl<No override>extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tplEdit templateOverride template
1content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl<No override>extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tplEdit templateOverride template
1pagelayout.tpl<No override>extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/pagelayout.tplEdit templateOverride template
 Number of times templates used: 4
 Number of unique templates used: 4

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs