search weigths

Hi;

I'm working on a search script and i want to assign weigths for different criterias for my articles like

title %15
content %50
hits %5
creation date %10
(maybe more criterias come here)

etc.

I need ideas for this or any articles which is related with this.

Thanks for the comments

 

I suggest something like this :

1 - Fetch the results of a DB query like this ("SELECT title, content,... FROM db_table WHERE some strings comparaison is true") on an array

2 - for each table row generate a % for each criteria, for example :
* Title % will be equal to : (15 * number_of_search_terms_found / number_of_search_terms)%
* Same for content
* The table row with the biggest hits value will have a % of 5 for the hits criteria, and the row with the lowest hits count will have 0%, other rows well be calculated :
hits % = (5 * row_hits_count/biggest_hits_count)%
* Same for creation date (using timestamp instead of hits count).

Then calculate the criterias % total and sort the table.


Sorry for mistakes... I wrote this in a hurry !