FIRSTsearch: more items added
 

I have now added all regional awards that are located on usfirst.org, if you know of the location of a list of awards, please let me know, I will add them as soon as possible...
With the new addition of awards to FIRSTsearch, it now has these features:

• Automatic Q&A daily updates at midnight
• Search by Q&A ID#
• Referencing items automatically link to referenced items
• Search by keywords
• Search by rule names, rules sections
• Search by update numbers
• Search by awards
• Searching All Awards posted on usfirst.org
• Searching Team Updates up to #15
• Searching all the rules
• Powerful search based on relevance
• Highlights searched words
• Multiple pages
• Q&A up to March 21, 2005 (always all Q&A through one day before you go)

Anyone like this search engine?
Does anyone have any other suggestions for me to build onto it?
Please note: I plan on moving it all to an SQL db next year so it goes faster (my previous host which I built it on did not have an SQL server, but my current one does)
I am also planning to split up the awards and rules for next year, so that they are easier to read.
I will also probably try to make a better cron php file to handle things other than just Q&A
I may also add in questions/answers from this forum and other forums, as well as add team information...
...But any other ideas, comments, or concerns?

And of course it is located on my website: http://bobfrank.org/?module=FIRSTsearch

Re: FIRSTsearch: more items added
 

That is really cool, it will be nice to be able to search for a award and see what teams won it with out having to search through FIRST site.

Re: FIRSTsearch: more items added
 

OK... I have added the following regional's awards to the search engine:
from previous weekends:
* BAE Systems / Granite State Regional
from this past weekend:
* Philadelphia Regional
* Buckeye Regional
* Silicon Valley Regional
* Waterloo Regional

I also added Team Updates #16 and #17...

enjoy!:D

PS: I would still like some recommendation as to what I should add to the search engine...

Search F.I.R.S.T. data the easy way:
FIRSTsearch - http://bobfrank.org/?module=FIRSTsearch

Re: FIRSTsearch: more items added
 

OK... I have added the following regionals:
* Finger Lakes Regional
* NASA/VCU Regional
* Sacramento Regional
* Arizona Regional
* Pittsburgh Regional
* Boilermaker Regional (fixed: was nearly empty before)
* Chesapeake Regional
* Detroit Regional

-- Which completes the entirety of all the regionals

...I have also added in the awards searching the ability to find all awards for one team, one regional, one state or country, or all winners for one award!
so it is no longer quite as bad as the FIRST site's organization, you can actually just look up a single team's information now!

Re: FIRSTsearch: more items added
 

Nice job, definitely a very good idea and very smart one.

Hmm.... I think I'll FIRSTsearch team 217. :)

Re: FIRSTsearch: more items added
 

I already did that...it's kinda done, but not entirely finished yet. Also - doesn't include any info from this year yet.


Ugly version (php print_r() function)

Slightly nicer version (change the team # in the url)

Re: FIRSTsearch: more items added
 

I am going to add it, so that you can search anything with the search engine, not having to go to all different search engines..
yours is still good though for now...

Re: FIRSTsearch: more items added
 

OK, I have added the following regionals to the database:
Greater Toronto Regional
Las Vegas Regional
Lone Star Regional
Palmetto Regional
West Michigan Regional

And I was woundering if anyone has the awards data for this regional:
Southern California Regional
...It isn't on the usfirst.org website.... and there is not Regional website for it...

EDIT:
I am just using the data from http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=35 for now...hope it's accurate..