how to put a search box on a site

[Baby Jai]

someone want to direct me somewhere I can learn how to put a search box on a website and make it advanced as well

[evo190]

the 'search box' is just a text form field.

the 'advanced' part is the form action which will search your database and/or your indexed pages.

[FrankTheTank]

Usually a search involves a database - this is why just about every blog and shopping site has a search box, because all the content is stored in a database and it's easy to search.

If you're database-free, the alternative involves some kind of script to search the text of all the files in your site and index them, stashing the data it finds in a database of it's own.

It's going to involve a database one way or the other. So which situation are you in?

Frank

[eternalsmil3]

How would someone link the search form to the database if they don't know much about PHP or ASP?

[Sorehead]

If you just want a quick solution try using a google site search
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

or if you want to do it using your own database etc then you will need to look into Full Text Indexing in MySql and php etc

[Baby Jai]

I know how to do php but not to much MYSQL is there something on hotscripts or something, Frank I am looking to use something with a database that isnt to difficult