Sphider, the open source PHP spider (aka Web crawler) and search engine, uses the fsockopen() function to get files that are spidered. This means that if the site you are spidering is protected via .htaccess or the Apache directive to protect realms, Sphider will return a “401 unreachable” error when attempting to fetch files [...]
Elgg, is an open source social network engine providing out-of-the box functionality for deploying social-aware applications in education, business, non-profit and other environments.
Elgg runs on Apache, PHP and MySQL - the same open source platform that the majority of web applications are written in.
Off-the-shelf, Sphider the open source php crawler and search engine, (http://www.sphider.eu/) only returns one portion of a document in which the searched keyword is found. With this mod, Sphider will display as many as 5 portions of a document instead…