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- AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25I have to admit I 'slightly' cheated. I had a lot of experience with http://www.ibegin.com/ from before, but all the coding (other than the stemming part) was done from scratch.
But aye it was really done in 24 hours, from scratch (other than the data source) :) - Takteek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Wow... congratulations. I'm.. just... amazed...
You just convinced me to stop being lazy and work on my site more often.
EDIT: What did you use to make the graphic on the homepage? If you don't mind telling... - AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10If you actually read the log, you would know that it is more than a SELECT statement. And if you had ever actually programmed, you would also know it is more than just a SELECT statement :)
- JCJC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8This was done in 24 hours? waahh... amazing.
I like the simplicity of this web search - type in what you want, and where you want it. Simple as that. - phoenixd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Oh, and if you want a great read on what it was like to build, you have to check out the story page: http://www.localbrit.co.uk/story.html
- Takteek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"12:56 am - Back. Daily Show and Colbert Report are most hilarious."
Lol I agree. :) - stan205, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I searched Food in South London and got nothing. Then Food with London and got tons. It works but it doesn't really tell you specific info.
- thebassman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Wow... it turned out really well! It's fast, too!
- oreo2123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6if the guy's not fibbin about the time it took...yes, it is amazing.
- calkevin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wow, very impressive story!
- intelmole, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Search for : pubs
in : Sittingbourne
No results found.
Brilliant!
-Mole - NeilVickers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5And yet if you search for 'public house' in Sittingbourne you get nine pages of results. Whod'a thought it?
:) - HPSauce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Top stuff Ahmed, love the simplistic and cuddly interface!
- mpancha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Design looks great, functionality I can't really test as I'm not in London, but this is very well designed, and I can only imagine it getting better with more time.
- AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Added the 404. The incoming data is all checked and cleaned.
- catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@merreborn
so can we see some sites you've made recently in 24 hours?
Great site to whoever made this, I think ambiguous terms need to be available like if I search for 'burger'; McDonalds should come up..not just Burger King, but I'm sure that will all come in due time!
Again, great site, nice design and good luck! Just offering some positive criticism!
-Robin - j4s0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@merreborn, even very complex sites still needs a SELECT, its about how to make those SELECTs work for you. not making the SELECTs you work.
- mebob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3wow nice. Matches my plans for a local website almost to a T... of course my dev site only containing about 40 line of code and is completely non-functional :)
- Breezy913, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Wow! This is incredible!
- AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And suppousedly you can't find the page navigation under those 9 links ;)
- tritium, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Sure -- anyone can build a search engine in 24-hrs. The only real question is whose API are you going to use when building the actual query? On some level, you'd need to build in some cacheing capability to draw down your load on the APIs and speed your site up, but that's not anywhere near impossible.
Kudos still on putting together an attractive and useful website. - AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In the story.html page I actually clearly stated that other than the code for stemming (which wasn't mine to begin with), no code was duplicated.
- sydneyleasteele, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It looks really nice and amazing that you did it in what a day but its not turning up the kind of results i would expect. the example used is "pub." wokingham has lots of these and only two showed up. same with reading, it had maybe four.
- AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It may not be the best ... but N4: http://www.localbrit.co.uk/search/pubs/in/n4
- flinx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What is this written in? And how did the choice aid/hurt the ability to work rapidly?
- AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is purely LAMP.
- mccake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4What a marketing gimmick!
- AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Umm ... not true. Only one of those first 9 results even have that word in them.
- j4s0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2actually, Google API or whatever, SQL or whatever, what's interesting is the story behind how it was done in 24 hours, http://www.localbrit.co.uk/story.html I saw that it isnt that easy. I also just like how a programmer's task are written in that detail up to minutes. (Including Pizza breaks), Is there a programmer reality show? or a Big Brother for Programmers?
- AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That is the redirector - the actual sql query is properly cleaned and escaped :)
- AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Where is the mod_rewrite broken?
- herting, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For the most part I am impressed but there are some issues I see.
Searching by town name seems difficult. Looking for places in "Palmer's Green" doesn't return any results, so I tried again searching for "N13" some results are from Palmer's Green but others are places in N1 where the suffix of the post code begins with 3 (e.g. N1 3UH) - j4s0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love it. now hrrrmmm, i'm thinking of beating it on 12 Hours. Joke! Nice site and design.
- MAdaXe42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well, at least turn off reporting, use a 404, and fix your mod_rewrite ;)
- suttree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You should look into geonames.org for placename, postcode and geocoding, it might be a bit more suitable for what you want to do. It might not, but it's worth looking at, all the same :)
- JohnDGeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's a great example of how to use the API. I think the design is just fine but I would increase the size of the entry fields for a larger font. Other then that I think it's a great effort. I am using Opera and it seems to be working OK for me.
- mundek23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice and all. And I'm sure creating this site in 24 hours is quite an achievement.
But the underlying data seems to be bollocks, it is missing so many businesses (search categories florist, pubs, thai restaurant, post office) around my area (London, E3) that should be in there but aren't. There are much better directory sites out there. - Munzir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1great site. i love how simple it is.
- MAdaXe42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You do need to read up on your security a little - nice job for 24 hours but: use a 404, delimit queries, check all incoming data, turn off error reporting.
- AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Was recompiling PHP, should be okay now.
Here we go: http://www.localbrit.co.uk/search/skateboard/in/manchester - AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well the system is smart enough to know that pub and pubs are the same.
Yeah we don't have a ton of results. That depends a lot on the data source. The engine itself is sound, the dataset just isn't as massive. - AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Time constraint, just zooming along :)
- TheBarge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Oh, one more thing, if you're using MySQL, the proper way to escape a single quote is to use two single quotes, not prepend a backslash.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The map should automatically zoom into the city that you search in..
- TheBarge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2To be honest, this is no great feat, especially since you already had the datasource. And by reading AhmedF's previous comments, it sounds like he possibly used some existing code from a previous project. I wont digg it down, I do like the simplistic design, but still. By the way, I just did a search for "a" and I got this:
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /mnt/oldsys/home/brit/public_html/search.php on line 166 - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sorry, i didn't do the search myself.. i was just guessing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I tried searching 'skateboard' in 'manchester' and get a broken page - my first search.
I have a thing for discovering bugs and unsual things. Mutant? - Drakazz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2It looks very familiar, doesn't it?
http://local.google.co.uk/
Especially that the source is really exactly using Google, and I didn't see anything mentioned...
Embeding Google Maps in a website is not that complicated that it would be worth a digg, would it?
Only thing I like is using the mod_rewrite, and the URLs look nice.
Oh yeah, there's no credit to Google, is there?
http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html
24 hours to use Google API ;)) - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It seems to search by the names of the places instead of the type of places.. so you'll only find places that have "restaurants" in their title..
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