Create a LAMP Search Engine Using Multithreaded Perl
Explore the multithreaded capabilities of Perl while building a LAMP Web crawler with all the necessary components of a basic search engine.
by Brian Carr,
Tim Cambier
September 7, 2004
ntil recently, people argued that Perl did not have stable multithreaded capabilities. This article presents a Perl application for which using multithreading capabilities makes sense: a Web crawler with all the necessary components of a basic search engine. The downloadable code includes the MySQL database creation scripts, Perl code, and PHP interface files.
The application requirements for the example are:
All open source
Small footprint
Ability to score content
Multithreaded application
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ntil recently, people argued that Perl did not have stable multithreaded capabilities. This article presents a Perl application for which using multithreading capabilities makes sense: a Web crawler with all the necessary components of a basic search engine. The 
