Hi guys and gals, I'm not really sure if this is javascript (since I'm kinda a beginner in javascript) but i think it is.

The thing is; I've made a search bar in photoshop; which is to match my cool design on my blog site. I've searched around a bit on google, but haven't really found anything. The only thing I found was the google one; and by some copyright law you're not allowed to change the design on the search bar.

Here's a picture of the search bar design; to let you get an idea of what the search bar looks like; and if it's even possible to modify.



I'm handing this in as a school assignment , so would really appreciate it if you could help me out


//tenderish

Borgar the search bar you created looks good. Is the idea now that you need to program it so it works? If so what does it need to search? Does it need to find one sentence from a page or one page among many?

If you can describe the assignment more I'm sure a few people here could point you in the right direction and help you out.

The choice of programming language will depend on some of the requirements for searching. JavaScript can be used to search for some things, though it's more common use a server side language that allows for interaction with a database as you have more to search.

First of all thx for replying!

Basically what I'm going to do; is to program the search bar to scan trough a php-"blog" site that I've made; scan for topics etc. Basically I want a search bar to find everything that is on that site. I know google has this search bar you can use for free, where you can select "search this site" (which is what i want). But as I mentioned earlier, you're not allowed by google to change the design on the search bar. (and It would look horrible on my site with that original google bar :P)


//tenderish

If you're using something like WordPress, you can just substitute your search bar (which is rather nice ) for the default search textbox and button - cut your picture in two and use one bit as the background for the textbox and the other bit for the button.

If you've written your own site and store content in a database, you could hook up a search form fronted by your search bar to a PHP script that queries the DB This should be fairly simple too. There's a bit about fulltext searching here and coding a search form here ("other sites are available").

Hope that makes sense and is of some use. I'm also not quite sure what you're trying to do I'm afraid.