How Does A Search Box Work

[s4surbhi2218]

Hii,

please see this site

http://www.fritolay.com/recipes/

 

i just wanted to know the logic behind the search box which has written search for a recipe and a blue btn.

Please assist.

many thanks

[drewdan]

I would imagine it queries a database looking for your search term. The content of this website is probably database driven which allows this to happen.

[cpd]

Depends how the search is set up. A blog search could retrieve matches on slugs and tags of posts. A website search can retrieve either titles based on slugs or scan entire page content (a little too much for me). You could cache previous searches and return the results of that search when someone else runs it. There's loads of methods that can be used to search websites.

 

Ultimately you have a search term and content in a database; the database could be anything from MySQL to a text file. The algorithm used to gather results varies from one specification to the next.

 

http://en.wikipedia..../Clean_URL#Slug

[shlumph]

The search box itself is built with CSS, using image sprites. I can't really tell if this is what you're asking. But basically, the form is wrapped with a div with this background:

 

 

And then the button itself has this as a background:

 

Then depending on the state of the button/form, the background's Y offset is adjusted.