I was given the assignment to build and implement a custom PHP search function that would: except any thing the user puts in it search the html website search a backend database I tried to use the google search code, but the higher-ups want me to build it from scratch... really how hard is this? and where should i start? i have some understanding of php/mysql but this seems really over my head and it just seems so much more feasible to use google search code
Google's search code is also an ability to make money from the website. However, if you really must do it yourself you should start looking into MySQL queries with the conditional of "CONTAINS".