None mySQL Search

[Anon]

Right... I've recently been searching th web for information about creating a search without using SQL... I don't know where to start becuase I'm new to PHP, I'd like to know is there an actual 'search' command or something? I just want to be able to search through 1 text file and return the results with short description underneath. Only problem is all the information I have found involves using mySQL, which I dont want to use. Maybe I will have to resort to this?

Thanx

[Anon]

to search the text file, load it all into a string...

then you can do regular expressions on the string.... like

ereg("blah",$file_contents)

would only be true if the "blah" appeared in the string.

that is very simple and won't probably produce the results you want. you can tweak with it a lot to narrow down the results set.