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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.

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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.

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Verity Clone

Another small (under 100 lines) script modeled after Verity's Search 97 interface.

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Lycos Clone

A Lycos look-alike search.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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