le007 Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Hi all, I need to incorporate a basic search engine on a website - a simple textbox and search button. Whats the easiest way to do this? Just show results like google does - just a link and a one line description. I also need a similar search engine for a massive website im working on - its a complete phonebook directory with a textbox and someone can type in say something like 'painter' or whatever. Could be 10,000 links in it. its for my local community but i need to get it started and done soon. I was looking at spidher but i need to write something myself. Can someone please give me the steps needed eg: mysql db textbox etc Thank you Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/121312-php-search-engine/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Check out the FULLTEXT index for the best searching that you can get out of MySQL. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/121312-php-search-engine/#findComment-625456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
le007 Posted August 25, 2008 Author Share Posted August 25, 2008 Thanks for the reply..... I've googled that FULLTEXT? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/121312-php-search-engine/#findComment-625464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
inactive Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 http://isearchthenet.com/isearch/ Pretty yuck looking, but you should be able to customize it to look the way you want. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/121312-php-search-engine/#findComment-625544 Share on other sites More sharing options...
le007 Posted August 26, 2008 Author Share Posted August 26, 2008 Thanks for the link Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/121312-php-search-engine/#findComment-625949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSkyIS Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 my 2 cents: i like the way google.com searches. i haven't found any off-the-shelf code that does as good a job. i pay the $100 per year (for business websites, free for general use) to license google.com's search API. which results are returned and how the results are displayed is very customizable, and there's no need to hack together a search engine that won't come near the completeness of the google search engine. example here: www.1stradardetectors.com, top right of page. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/121312-php-search-engine/#findComment-626013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynew Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Add a google adsense search unit???? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/121312-php-search-engine/#findComment-626041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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