Expert needed...

hi, im new to the forums... thought id make the virgin post a good one.

Heres the problem.
I want to be able to search another site from my site and return the results in a table on my site. Is this possible?

Reason.
Im an affiliate to TigerDirect.com and i want the visitor to be able to search for computer parts via my site and return the results to my site.

Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated. I have no clue if this is possible or if so how to go about setting it up.

Steve

http://www.google.com/services/websearch.html

well this works but... i was thinking more of i could display images like that of Tigerdirect.com.... not just google links. like on www.tigerdirect.com when you search for "memory" it brings up a page full of memory. this is what i was thinking of.

Can it be done?

If you want to search other sites from your site unless you are planning on developing your own search engine technology then you will need to use a third party service such as google.

Originally posted by katalyst
well this works but... i was thinking more of i could display images like that of Tigerdirect.com.... not just google links. like on www.tigerdirect.com when you search for "memory" it brings up a page full of memory. this is what i was thinking of.
If you expect to run a Google-type targeted search on your own site that harvests someone else's site along with images, you aren't going to do this easily. There are a couple of options though:

phpDig (http://www.phpdig.net) is something you might want to look into, and if you need something more robust while having a few bucks to spend, then WebGlimpse (http://webglimpse.org) is viable (if you're a noob to SSH you'll have big problems installing WG, and it builds flatfile archives eating lots of server space; superior SE spider though; crawls anything, even dhtml menus).

As an aside, why aren't there any seriously competing PHP search robots out there? All the best commercial ones are still done in Perl.