NOT a Site Search. Search text within tables and display tables.

[freexbay]

Hi everyone, im new to this place..
I need to create, make, use, or whatever, a custom search.

Here is what I want to do and possibly complete.
Here is a (sample) of The "new" FreeBay. http://www.thefreebay.com/sample
I want to put a search on the site that I can customize and add items to.

Not a search with http links and titles, but one that could search for
"free items in custom tables" and then for the results to appear
embedded just like on the sample page.

To get a clear picture of this.......

I dont know about making the search engine to search for its results
(free items) on the pages within the free bay, but an easier way would
be to use a system that I could input the "items with tables" into,
and the engine would search the text within the seperate custom
tables/items, and appear them as shown on the sample. Just the items,
that means the sponsors name, brief description, along with the rating
and link.

There has got to be something that can search for text within a 3
column 2 row table and out put that table exactly as is.

I hope this is all understandable. Please help me..

Thnx..

[PeOfEo]

I do not completely understand what you are after but maybe these will be helpful
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/110602-1.aspx
binary search for arrays

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/030503-1.aspx
using the google webservice to get your search results

also I think there was one more running around that used regex to search through data drid entries and order them depending on how many times a word was used, each cell was its own string or something. It was cool. Might have searched a dataset and then put it into a grid rather*

[freexbay]

hmmm... somewhat helpful.

what i am really looking for a script to create a database of tables and have the search pick up the text and display that table. (the table with the text that was searched) www.thefreebay.com/sample
those items are in tables....

thnx.

[buntine]

Please dont crosspost.. Its against the rules.

Regards,
Andrew Buntine.

[PeOfEo]

ummm, the way you describe it is not going to fly. It is going to be a lot of code and very inefficient. Please tell me what you want the end rsult to be (like what you are tring to make, the type of thing, not what you were thinking it would do with tables) and I will try to help you figure out a better way. That freebay.com thing you listed is not helping any, because to me it just looks like a list. You would be better off using one table in an sql server data base and giving each type of product a unique number and then displaying just items with that number using the where arguement in an sql statement. Or you can have a table for a particular type of item. But creating tables on the fly is a bit more difficult and could potentially lower your performance. Now when it gets to the search you could have a stand alone table and in that table you would have descriptions of each item class, then once you pick out that description from the search you could pull out the table. Or if you kept every item in one table you could just search it. But creating tables on the fly, or using a whole bunch of them in general would be a problem, also searching multible tables would be a problem.