php search engine

[Billy T]

Hey all

anyone got a php search engine script?

My aim is to allow people to search the site for keywords. Would be nice if it scanned a folder or something to find all the pages it needs to scan. Obviously, it then needs to return the results with links to the relevant pages

Thanks in advance

[vosgien]

Hi Billy,
I found an article at devShed that shows how to build a search engine using php and ht://Dig - not certain it is what you need, but take a look anyway, link is :
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Search_This/page1.html
if link doesn't work, feel sure you know your way to devShed !

Vosgien

p.s. thanks for the response on the other thread, it didn't solve the prob, but helped towards it !

[Billy T]

looks interesting

Thanks

[freddycodes]

htdig is nice, it indexes the files for easier searching, but it requires software to be installed on a server, and configuration of that server. Could be problems on shared hosting accounts.

[Billy T]

sure ok

yeah the one I'm implementing will be pretty simple...working quite well so far though...

Thanks

[freddycodes]

Billy are you writing one yourself?

[Billy T]

yeah but like I said - very very simple ;)

will no doubts have some questions for you soon :)

[freddycodes]

Fire away.;)

[freddycodes]

You might want to have a gander in here first though.
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Search_Engines/index.html

[Billy T]

fire away? ok you asked for it ;)

you can see the rough page here - http://billyt.homeip.net:81/james/main.php?page=home

if you click on a few links you'll see that they all load main.php and then include a certain php file (for the content in the white area) that it gets from the query string

Now, at the moment I have my search stuff in another file. This will gather the info and I guess store it all in an array. What is the best way to then go back to something like main.php?page=displayResults and send it the info in the array?

Should I set up a session?

Thanks ;)

[Billy T]

nevermind

I think I got it sorted (probably very messy but it seems to be working)

Thanks anyway