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Adding Search to a site

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  • 02-08-2005 2:00pm
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    WhatsGoingOn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Can anyone recommend a good search script that I can add to a PHP/mySQL site? A free one would be nice, but I don't mind paying. I have been looking at a program called SiteXpert which looks good.
    Thanks.


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    Webmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    Is all your page data on mysql then? you could create a custom script if your site is layed out good. it would be hard to get a script that would do the job automatically without having the change a lot


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    WhatsGoingOn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭WhatsGoingOn


    Yeah, I created one before for a site where keywords were added along with the entry and you could then search for the keywords. Not an ideal solution but it worked well for that particular site.
    What I like about the SiteXpert package is that you can schedule a robot to crawl your site every day to pick up any new data entered.


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    Serbian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,157 ✭✭✭Serbian


    WhatsGoingOn wrote:
    Yeah, I created one before for a site where keywords were added along with the entry and you could then search for the keywords. Not an ideal solution but it worked well for that particular site.
    What I like about the SiteXpert package is that you can schedule a robot to crawl your site every day to pick up any new data entered.

    Yeah, it seems like a decent solution alright. And it also doesn't matter if your site is dynamic or not, as all the information will be indexed from the web pages anyway.


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    WhatsGoingOn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭WhatsGoingOn


    This one looks even better:

    http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/index.html


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    Cr8or
    Registered Users Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Cr8or


    I know this is slightly off topic but the use of msn's rss feeds using the site search feature would be a good alterntive .. just pull in the search direct from msn .. this wouldnt be the best idea for a high volume searches but im sure it would be an east work around if you didnt want to do all the grunt work.


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