search engine for a database?

[gilgalbiblewhee]

Hi,
I have recently uploaded a database of the Bible by ftp.
What I want to create is a search engine. What is the simplest way of doing? I have MS office 2000.

If this is the wrong forum where should I ask?

[Phil Karras]

Perl is usually server-side and MS Office is on you computer, client-side, so yes this is the wrong forum, try finding one on Office 2000.

[CyCo]

Originally posted by gilgalbiblewhee
Hi,
I have recently uploaded a database of the Bible by ftp.
What I want to create is a search engine. What is the simplest way of doing? I have MS office 2000.

If this is the wrong forum where should I ask?

Hi, gilgalbiblewhee...
I think that the viewers could help you better, if you were to explain in more detail what you are seeking.
1) What type of "database" ?
2) What server-side languages does your host support?
3) ETC...

[gilgalbiblewhee]

Ok what I have is like this:
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Book Spoke Chapter Spoke Verse Spoke Book BookTitle Chapter Verse TextData
01 Genesis 001 022 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
01 Genesis 001 023 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
01 Genesis 001 024 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
01 Genesis 001 025 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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What I'm looking is something like http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible . Where the researcher can put preferences in the search.

I want to put checkboxes for the 66 books (very useful to see texts side-by-side!!!)and 1 for the bible entirely which would disable the former 66 checkboxes. I intend to add radios, 2 of them which one of them searches words in the specific #number of book or Chapter or verse (like book 28 is Hosea so iI would type 28 and a few words and search), or (this might be a little complicated) in numbers within sets of 22 (28 will be 6 because 28-22=6, or 50 is also 6 because 50-22-22=6...).

My server is tripod. It has java and HTML. I don't think it has anything else. Do you recommend any free servers? The Databate alone was about 7 MBs. I uploaded it by ftp. I don't know if that the way to do it. But it was impossible to do the regular uploading method.

I'm new at this but I think ther would be a need for such a search engine. At least for bible researchers.

Is the Perl method suitable for such a project? I've read a couple of things about it but that's it. Or is ASP better? (what about ASP.NET?)

My server also has a folder for CGI files by the way.

[CyCo]

...gotta link to where you found this "database"?