Hello,

I am trying to add a site search to my web page and have run into some problems. At first I was going to write my own script that would run through my databases and try to match keywords, but upon further research found that there is a better way.

I have seen and downloaded scripts that will "crawl" your website and then store that information in a database. The crawler and search script allows you to search the content of your site and presents you with links to the pages with matching words.

I have used yahooapi's which are cool, but they are not directory specific. It works on the main domain, but I have a couple sites on my domain i. e. <removed> and <removed>

Is there a script or a how-to that will allow me to create a site search that will crawl and search the pages within a specific directory?

If anyone has some input on what direction I should take I would greatly appreciate the info. Thanks.

So does anyone here use a sites-search script? If so is it available for free?

Site-search capability seems to pretty fairly common and is something I'd like to learn, has anybody heard much about how to accomplish this?

I'd write it myself, but I don't really know how they function, code-wise.

Anybody heard of anything?

Since I always use pre-made CMS's and frameworks, I've never really had any experience with this, since the software usually does it all for me. You could set up a Google Custom Search Engine or something like that, especially seeing that what you'd like to do is pretty complicated (or at the very least seems to be).

In simple language, what you want to do is...

a) store keyword(s)/text in database

b) allow those keywords to be scraped by a query to database

c) return value(s) via result w/link(s) to relevant page(s)


You may wish to omit common words such as "the", "and", "or", "if", etc.

Originally Posted by stevej

Since I always use pre-made CMS's and frameworks, I've never really had any experience with this, since the software usually does it all for me. You could set up a Google Custom Search Engine or something like that, especially seeing that what you'd like to do is pretty complicated (or at the very least seems to be).

Steve you are right. Instead of coding, you can just install the Google Custom Search Function on your site. That will save you a lot of sleepless nights