NEED SEARCH function....Please point me in right direction...

[PCM]

Hi all,

I am building a site of 50-60 HTML/CSS pages- each page will have a bio and picture (it's a personal site for a market research group).

They want to have two search functions: one search function which will search the entire site for keywords, and another which will search the 50-60 pages for certain specifications (e.g. hobbies, interests, etc.) and come up with a list. I am more of a graphics specialist and not so much coding (however I can code limited perl/cgi...at least enough to get a guest book or formmail script going). I am fluent in HTML / Flash / CSS etc. but this kind of coding is out of my league methinks.

What sort of resources will I need to achieve something like this, and which direction shoud I be looking coding wise? I've thought of just setting up a personal phpBB type board and creating users with profiles rather than the 50-60 html pages. Will that work? Any help is much appreciated!

 

[arn]

What sort of resources will I need to achieve something like this, and which direction shoud I be looking coding wise? I've thought of just setting up a personal phpBB type board and creating users with profiles rather than the 50-60 html pages. Will that work? Any help is much appreciated!

There are search scripts you can install that will handle this sort of thing for you... and is probably a more realistic solution if these are static pages.

Is this data being stored in a database? If so, you can query the server for searches.

the simplest way, of course, is to let google do it for you, but it's a bit clumsier. You can limit google queries to certain domains.

arn

 

[PCM]

thanks for the reply arn. If I was to look into server database programming (for future reference...certainly not this project), where should I start? I've done some basic php mods and perl / cgi...

 

[mkrishnan]

Since google does such great searching, and will let you inline it, is there anyway to just incorporate it? See here for instance: http://www.google.com/help/features.html#sitesearch

I don't know if you can get it to include stuff after the domain name in your search, and I don't have an example to try, sadly, but I wonder if you could use directories within your webserver to restrict searches correctly?