Building a search on my site

[papilindo701]

Hey how's it going? I downloaded a template and it has a flash header and in that header there is a search feature. I want to be able to use that feature. I tried using coffee cup and it indexed the site but it also generated a swf that it wanted me to use. I was wondering if there is another approach to this or fi i can open up that swf and get the actionscript needed for my site. Thank you in advance for your help.

[lordofduct]

you can use php to pass the string the person typed in the flash header to some other non-flash search tool you might want to use.

[papilindo701]

hey thanks for your reply I am a total newbie at this stuff do you have nay examples or tutorials that are similar?

[lordofduct]

Not really...

I've only done one search tool in my life, and it was all contained in a single flash only site. And the search tool was very basic (I used no tutorials and just stuck it all together via a basic knowledge of RegExpressions).

[papilindo701]

is there some way the the swf can be taken apart and the action script can be seen? Coffeecup generated a few files search.txt,search.php,search.xml so if knew the actionscript to but on the button to search it would be cool. what exactly is a php to pass string?