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how do i add a searchbar to search my site?


the thin ice said: "how do i add a searchbr to search my site? maybe a "if "word" then go"www.site.com/info.htm" type of thing, god knows"

Darren said: "You can script a small search engine box yourself (complicated), or you can search Google for small search boxes that will index you site. Generally the free ones require a link back to the author's website."

<h1> said: "you want a simple if this word or phrase is searched then display this file. Here I previously made such an example. If you understand php then you will be able to easily implement this script. [PHP] '; } function searchresults($resultsarray,$word,$originalarray) { print "Searched phrase: $word
"; print "Search Results: (".(count($resultsarray)).") pages found."; print "

Pages:

"; // display pages for ($counter=0;$counter<(count($resultsarray));$counter++) { $temp = $resultsarray[$counter]; print "".$originalarray[$temp][1]."
Description: ".$originalarray[$temp][2]."

"; } } function search($whicharray,$word) { $numberarray = array(); $tempcount = 0; foreach ($whicharray as $number => $data) { //print $number; foreach ($data as $value) { //print $value; if ((trim(strtolower($value)) == trim(strtolower($word))) && ($tempcount > 2)) { array_push($numberarray, $number); } $tempcount ++; } $tempcount=0; } return $numberarray; } if (empty($stage)) $stage = 1; switch ($stage) { case 1: displayform(); break; case 2: $results = (search($searcharray,$searchstring)); //print $results[0]; //print $searcharray[$results][0]; if (!empty($results)) { searchresults($results,$searchstring,$searcharray); } else print "No results found for ".$searchstring; } ?>[/PHP] goto [URL]http://www.exzibit.co.za/search.php[/URL] to view this specific script in action. Search for 'products' and 'home' to view the script retrieving more than one entry. peace rich"

the thin ice said: "hey thanks, i reckon i can do something with that also, i found this which was also pretty helpful [url]http://www.perlfect.com/freescripts/search/[/url]"

<h1> said: "no probs it was made for its simplicity.. peace"