searching my own site

jpn

Can anyone recommend an easy to use 'add free' script that will allow me to search my own site. ie return a link to pages with a small reference to the search text.

I have looked at hotscripts.com but there are too many to pick from.

Im really looking for something that is easy to implement and has a facility to format results using CSS.

I hope I had made myself clear.

bpat1434

What about writing your own? If your site had a database backend that would be easy enough. Other wise, you can always write your own search page and such just as easy as finding one.

~Brett

jpn

My site will be using MYSQL but only to store user details.

Forgive my ignorance but how will having a database make things easier to perform a search as most of the content will be static and not derived from a table.

richie

The way having your info in a database would make writing a search engine easy, is that you can simply write sql queries to match keywords against certain table fields.

If your pages are static however, then you need other methods to read the contents of the rendered html pages, then match your search keywords against such contents using regex. That is not a trivial task.

One way you could save yourself a lot of agony is to let google search your site for you.

keywords site:www.yourSite.com

To implement this on your site:

Create a form with a GET method, and make the action:
http://www.google.com/search

For more details, go to php.net. Their form allows you to search via google.