Want to add a search function to my website

Discussion in 'Programming' started by Manald, Mar 23, 2009.

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    I'm looking to hire a programmer to add a search function to my website.

    Basically, whatever the user types, the search function looks through all the pages on my website and display the results in the result page.

    If you can do this, please PM me your price.


    Thanks,

    Ormus
     
    Manald, Mar 23, 2009 IP
  2. camjohnson95

    camjohnson95 Active Member

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    Google will do this for you for free.
     
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  3. Manald

    Manald Well-Known Member

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    But Google must first crawl your website before this search function will work.

    I'm looking to create one using PHP to search the website.
     
    Manald, Mar 25, 2009 IP
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    m.stevens Peon

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    Hello, it can be done. But let me explain: you do not want your search page to search all your pages when the user is searching, because it will be very slow.

    What you should do is build an index (in a database) of your site, and your search page will simply use that index to bring the results. I can do this for you, depending on how simple you want this search to be, and how much you will pay. PM me if interested. (You will need to have a MySQL database)
     
    m.stevens, Mar 25, 2009 IP
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    ankit_frenz Active Member

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    you should post this in BST section i suppose...
    still belive that google custom search is best for this
     
    ankit_frenz, Mar 25, 2009 IP
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    If your site is visible to the internet (ie not on a corporate intranet or behind a firewall), google will index it eventually. You can register your site on google webmaster tools (google "google webmaster tools" ) to have a picture of the crawl rate, or else just query site:example.com to see how many pages are in google's index.

    If you're behind a firewall, then what m.stevens says.
     
    conanite, Mar 26, 2009 IP