Simple Search Engine

[Dysan]

How do I create a search engine, that allows the user to search 3 different fields contained in the database, with a specified criteria?

[Northern Flame]

I wrote this tutorial myself

 

http://forums.tizag.com/showthread.php?t=5015

[p2grace]

If you're looking for a more simple search engine try this:

 

$query = "SELECT `field1`, `field2`, `field3` FROM `dbtable` WHERE `field1` LIKE '%$search_str%' OR `field2` LIKE '%search_str%' OR `field3` LIKE '%search_str%'";
$run = mysql_query($query);
while($arr = mysql_fetch_assoc($run)){
   extract($arr);
   echo "$field1 $field2 $field3<br />";
}

 

This is obviously much more basic.  But if you're just trying to create a simple search engine it would do the trick