Uploading / searching word documents

First, you can get a search engine here (www.wrensoft.com) that will index
Word docs from the links to them.

Second, wouldn't PDF be a more universal format for people to use? (PDFs are
also indexable by the above software.)

"Iain71" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I'm jusy working on my first PHP/mySQL project - so far so good, with it
> all
> set up for adding, deleting and editing records.
>
> It's for a small recruitment agency - so in the first instance I've got a
> table for jobs, which the site owner can add new jobs to the site via a
> form,
> and a table for clients, which is populated automatically when the fill in
> a
> registration form on the site.
>
> However the guy I'm doing it for wants to have CV's available online - for
> employers to be able to view. The easiest way I'd imagined that working,
> would
> be to upload the CVs as word documents, and hace a field for each client
> that
> was the linked ot their CV.doc. Again, so far so good.
>
> But I've been asked if the CVs could be searchable on the site, and I'm
> not
> sure if this is possible, as the CV's contents isn't actually a database
> field
> - just the filename.
>
> I'm thinking it might be better to maybe have a few fields that could be
> used
> to hold pertinent details about each client, rather than rely on the CV's
> contents - and from there, employers could still download the CV of any
> that
> took their interest.
>
> If anyone could give me any tips or pointers with something like that it
> would
> be a great help.
>
> Cheers,
> Iain
>