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"Searchable Databases????"

or summat like that??

I would like to know how to make a website searchable so I could put a search box on it....or even better, a members page or something like that.

But the Search thing is more important. Because I would like to know so I can put it on...in say a month. As I will soon have lots more things on my website.

So is it something to do with sorting them into folders or on Excel???

Can someone please help me out??

or summat like that??

I would like to know how to make a website searchable so I could put a search box on it....or even better, a members page or something like that.

But the Search thing is more important. Because I would like to know so I can put it on...in say a month. As I will soon have lots more things on my website.

So is it something to do with sorting them into folders or on Excel???

Can someone please help me out??

I would think that javascript would be needed for that. I don't know a lot about webpage creation but It does sound like a problem that requires a program to do it like java.

I've got some code that'll do the job written in javascript. You just have a long list of keywords that appear on each page and an input box. When you type a word into the input box, it'll search through the lists of keywords and return the pages. No databases, just arrays of keywords.

ie.

pageX.htm
pageY.htm
pageZ.htm

searching for 'sql' will return pageX.htm and pageY.htm

Is that the sort of thing you mean?
Mail me at
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and I can send you an example

The javascript solution looks good, does it work in most browsers?

As for searching an actual database, if you want a quick example in ASP, go here...

http://www.asp101.com/samples/db_search.asp

Gives you an example + you can download the code. I suspect if you are using a Freeola account for this that you will not be able to use ASP as they seem to be PHP based.

ARGH! DON'T EVEN MENTION JAVASCRIPT!

Get yourself over to phpbuilder.com or search Google for free PHP scripts and you should find something that's just what you want. I used to use something very groovy and exactly what you want, but because I can't access my Windows drives right now I can't tell you. When I get Linux Xfree86 installed and configured I'll get back to you.

Sorry I tok so long to reply!

I will try the first suggestion using Javascript otherwise will try the other php/asp ones!

Thanx

STOP SLAGING OFF JAVASCRIPT!!!

monkey_man wrote:
> STOP SLAGING OFF JAVASCRIPT!!!


No, really, JavaScript has its uses I admit but do you have any idea how resource sucking a JavaScript DATABASE would be? Not to mention the fact that some people browse with js turned off, leaving the site useless.

JS is by far quicker than searching a database. actually.

Turbonutter wrote:
> Not to mention the fact that some people browse
> with js turned off, leaving the site useless.

Now is that dependant on whether it's client side ot sever side?