Once again, needing ideas of where to start

j_w_Bruce

I'm still new to HTML / PHP and so forth, but here is my project. I am going to create database table with URL's in it. This table is going to be my list of "member sites". I want a user to be able to enter a search question (for Example, "GOLD WIDGETS"). Then I want to move through the list of "member sites" searching each site for "GOLD WIDGETS". So..., boy am I in need of some helpful suggestions!

Thanks in advance.

NogDog

Assuming you're using MySQL, you might want to start reading up on Full-Text Search Functions.

Bob_PHP_Builder

sufficient validation on the search. 2. Create code that you can reuse were possible like functions, you will find it will be very benificial 3. Try, Try , Try and then if the you don't succeed.. there are some very knowledgable people here (like NogDog, WeedPacket etc ) that will have all the answers.

Thats what ive found helpful so far

Roger_Ramjet

I think you mean that you want to search the actual site. Yes?

This can be done using eg fopen() , but it is going to be very slow, opening each site and searching through the data stream.

Probably what you need to do is to scrape the site content and store that in your db, then you can search it with full text search. You'll need to check sites for updates on a regular basis to keep the content up to date.

You don't have to write your own web-crawler as there are plenty of tools around on SourceForge and the like.

j_w_Bruce

I'm looking to do something similar to what nextag has going on... Any idea how they do it?

thanks