How do I create a search on my webpage?

Hi,

I am looking to have a search option on my site, but am not sure how to go
about it. I would like to have the option of searching the site for
keywords, and also a web wide search. I have looked at the Google version of
this, but I would rather have the results opened in my site, rather than
being redirected to Google.

If anyone has any ideas as to the way I should go about this, it would be
much appreciated.

--
Paul

Commercial sites (aka businesses) usually buy a search index package to
do this function. You point it to the site and it scans the pages and
produces the index. Akamai used to sell UltraSeek on Solaris. I have
no idea what's out there in the market or if you can just get a site
index perl script running that will do what you want. Can you code or
just want to run a program and "have it work"?

I can code, but would not be too confident on my ability, so would much
rather have a program that "just work".

I have had someone say to me about writing a script in PHP to fetch the
results from google page then webscrape the results and pull it into my
page.

If I get a commercial piece of software, it has to be freeware, as the site
that I am working on is a charity.

Paul

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:05:39 +0100 from Paul Morrison <pm42 (AT) kent (DOT) ac.uk>:

Hi,

I am looking to have a search option on my site, but am not sure how to go
about it. I would like to have the option of searching the site for
keywords, and also a web wide search. I have looked at the Google version of
this, but I would rather have the results opened in my site, rather than
being redirected to Google.

If anyone has any ideas as to the way I should go about this, it would be
much appreciated.

If you can tolerate ads in the search results, the free Atomz.com is
pretty easy to set up and maintain.

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Paul Morrison wrote:

I have had someone say to me about writing a script in PHP to fetch the
results from google page then webscrape the results and pull it into my
page.

I have a feeling that that is against Google's terms of service.

If I get a commercial piece of software, it has to be freeware, as the
site that I am working on is a charity.

ht://dig is a rather mature, and free, piece of software for site searches.

http://www.htdig.org/

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Paul Morrison wrote:

Commercial sites (aka businesses) usually buy a search index package to
do this function. You point it to the site and it scans the pages and
produces the index. Akamai used to sell UltraSeek on Solaris. I have
no idea what's out there in the market or if you can just get a site
index perl script running that will do what you want. Can you code or
just want to run a program and "have it work"?


I can code, but would not be too confident on my ability, so would much
rather have a program that "just work".

I have had someone say to me about writing a script in PHP to fetch the
results from google page then webscrape the results and pull it into my
page.

If I get a commercial piece of software, it has to be freeware, as the site
that I am working on is a charity.

Paul

Ultraseek is free for up to 25000 documents. Download from
http://www.ultraseek.com.

Paul Morrison wrote:

Hi,

I am looking to have a search option on my site, but am not sure how to go
about it. I would like to have the option of searching the site for
keywords, and also a web wide search. I have looked at the Google version of
this, but I would rather have the results opened in my site, rather than
being redirected to Google.

If anyone has any ideas as to the way I should go about this, it would be
much appreciated.

I presume your site is static pages? If so, you're looking at an outside
provider, or some sort of clever server-side script running grep (or
equivalent).

If your site is database-based, it's much easier. I knocked up a quick
PHP/MySQL script to run a very basic search on my site:

http://tranchant.plus.com/search

--
Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/

I presume your site is static pages? If so, you're looking at an outside
provider, or some sort of clever server-side script running grep (or
equivalent).

If your site is database-based, it's much easier. I knocked up a quick
PHP/MySQL script to run a very basic search on my site:

Hi Mark,

The site has a main MySQL database, and idealy it is this that I will be
searching, so the second option sounds like a promising one. What kind of
thing do I need to look into in order to get this working?

Cheers

Paul

Paul Morrison wrote:

I presume your site is static pages? If so, you're looking at an outside
provider, or some sort of clever server-side script running grep (or
equivalent).

If your site is database-based, it's much easier. I knocked up a quick
PHP/MySQL script to run a very basic search on my site:

The site has a main MySQL database, and idealy it is this that I will be
searching, so the second option sounds like a promising one. What kind of
thing do I need to look into in order to get this working?

http://tranchant.plus.com/search-source

That's the PHP source. It refers to a few other files you can't get, but
they just do the formatting and the menus. I won't win any prizes for
that code, but it does the job.

The db_connect() connects to the database, keeping my user details out
of the source! The database consists of a single table with numerous
fields: the content is in the "content" field...

--
Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/