Ryanreid
08-13-2002, 03:22 PM
OK, here it is. My Aunt is starting a company and she has asked me to do the site for her. I can do everything she wants, except from a search function. It only has to search her site, and it works from two drop down menus where you select a trade from one menu, and an area of the county from the other, and it finds a match for you. Would this be a hard thing to do, and how do i go about doing it? Ta very much
Ryan (Sorry for posting this in different forums.)
beetle
08-13-2002, 04:03 PM
Javascript will do you no good with a site search. You need PHP or Perl or something else server-side.
boxer_1
08-13-2002, 04:03 PM
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i don't think you need a search engine.
you'de be better of creating a database-drive website that generates your html-pages (including the menu's) depending on the content of your database.
you can hardcode everything, buth this means enormous updating work + its not verry efficiant and user-friendly
a good site should run forever without any html-updating.
buth hey, here are some internal search engines :
http://freewarejava.com/applets/search.shtml
not with dropdown's (i think), buth those drop down "search function" you have i mind, are actually just dropdowns in a form (dynamically build with the content of the database), that post their content to a page (in a server sided language) that will then use the input for a select-query on a database.
Ryanreid, check out this thread. I posted a zip-file their whitch contains all the files you need to create such a "drop-down searchfunction"
http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5422
