Howto database.

 desc howtos ;
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id    | int(11)     |      | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| name  | varchar(40) | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| doc   | mediumtext  | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

Need medium text because some docs are more than the 64KB max that Text can be.

Build the file that will be the LOAD DATA INFILE.  This file contains
the filenames and the contents of all the Howto files.
Format:
filename dfw2
 contents of that file
dfwdfw

(dfw2 is field seperator, dfwdfw is row seperator.)

$ for i in * ;do echo  $i dfw2;cat $i;echo dfwdfw ;done >../allhowtos
create it in different directory else is in the file.
use dfw2 as field delimiter because some files have dfw string.


$ mysql -e "load data local infile '../allhowtos' into table howtos fields terminated by 'dfw2' lines terminated by 'dfwdfw\n' (name,doc);" howtos

Check:
select id,name,length(doc) from howtos;

 select count(*) from howtos where doc like '%apache%';
.59 sec

 select * from howtos where id=12\G


now create a fulltext index on the table's doc column.
and do some Matching