Search and Sort

• Fast full-text search and sort whole DB. The time POD spends on searching and sorting of the DB is usually less than 10% of the time it takes to read the DB file. Therefore the limit on the speed is by the hard disk reading speed of your internet server computer. If you have fast disks on your internet server machine and keeps DB compact, it is not uncommon to do full-text multiple-word search and sort on a 10-20 Mb DB file (usually 10,000-50,000 entries) within a second or two. Add, change, delete entries take much less time.
• Search up to 10 words at a time. The entry returned during a search will contain ALL of the search words.
• Combine multiple words into one search word. Just add quotation marks around the words you want to be treated as one word, and those words will serve as one search word during search.
• Confine search to a partial word. If you put quotation mark on a partial word, the search will only return entries containing that partial word, not those that only contain a complete word. For example, "bed" will return entries like "bed on sale" but not "bedroom".
• Sort search results in any item. With a specifal set of POD-specific tags, you will be able to tell POD to sort on a search result using any DB item as sort criteria.
• Sort can be either ascending or descending dynamically as chosen in the interface html files as defined by POD-specifc tags. This way you can link sort ascending or descending on the same item even in the same page to let user choose which way THEY like instead of one static sorting order that YOU like!
• Toggle sort order when users click again on the item they just sorted.
• Support sort in different order according to different data types. This will ensure the correct results be displayed.