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[cclayton]

I have approx 60 static docs and I want to create a web page that can search for keywords in these documents and list them so that when i click on one of them it outputs it to the page.... any ideas where to start.

I want to use PHP as I am interested in learning about it more. Please help me and advise me if I need to change the static HTNL docs into another format.... any info would be great! Thanks,

[drawmack]

convert them to xhtml - with all lower case tags

read the file into a string
http://www.php.net/fopen
http://www.php.net/fread

use
http://www.php.net/strip_tags

then turn the resulting string into an array
http://www.php.net/explode

then use this function

function count_occurences($in_ary) {
    $out_ary = array();
    foreach($in_ary as $word) {
        if(array_key_exists($word,$out_ary)) {
            $out_ary['word']++;
        } else {
            $out_ary['word'] = 0;
        } //end if
    } //end foreach
    return $out_ary;
} //end count_occurences

then see if the word exists in the array produced by this function with
http://www.php.net/array_key_exists

You can use the counts to do ordering by the number of times the word occurs but that is left as an exercise for the reader.