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dstathakis
06-04-03, 10:53 PM
I would like to learn how to have a visitor be able to type in a word that will then do a search on my website and allow a person to click to the page. (This is not about search engine info.)
If anyone can point me to a site that shows example code that would be great.

Thanks!
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Ryan
06-04-03, 11:14 PM
Hi dstathakis,

What language are you going to be using? Are you using a database? Most of the time when a user is able to search a site they are searching the site's database which returns the results. If you could provide a little more information so we can better help you that would be great. Thanks! :)
dstathakis
06-05-03, 12:36 AM
We are using ASP (Active Server Pages). Our 'data' is stored in SQL Server; however, what I'm REALLY interested in searching is the html documents themselves. For example, if I design a site that sells wigits and I have a search text box, the user may type in wigits XYZ and I may have 2 different HTML documents that incorporate information about those items, I'd like for the user to see a link for each coresponding page and be permited to utilize the hyperlink to obtain that particlar page.
Ryan
06-05-03, 12:54 AM
I'm not familiar at all with how ASP works so I doubt I'll be of much help to you. See if this (http://www.asp-help.com/) site will help you at all.
Kohl
06-07-03, 05:29 PM
Check out http://atomz.com/search/
They have a "free" version that will index up to so many (I think 150 pages) of your site. Works real well.

The results are acutally shown under their url, but you can use a template page to make it appear that the user is still on your site.
moo
04-20-04, 09:27 PM
Check out http://atomz.com/search/
They have a "free" version that will index up to so many (I think 150 pages) of your site. Works real well.

The results are acutally shown under their url, but you can use a template page to make it appear that the user is still on your site.

Take a look at Zoom (http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/)

The difference between Atomz and Zoom is that Atomz is hosted on a remote server, has ads, and will only index once in awhile (you can't force it to update its index AFAIK?). If you would like to host the search engine on your own site, and have more control over the thing, take a look at Zoom.