Re: Building A Web Site Search Engine Using PHP / mySQL

Or: http://www.aspseek.org/ Per "Ron Piggott" <ron.php@actsministries.org> wrote in message news:000501c49540$9dc697e0$98703ad8@ron... > I wanted to also ask about how you would build a web site search engine with > php and mySQL. > > I had thought of setting up a table with a few columns --- > > one for the URL of the specific page (This could become a link when a match > is found for that page) > second with the page title --- used in displaying the search results > third with the plain text from the page --- for searching purposes > > and then having one line of the table per web page on the site > > Then setting up a PHP form that would search the text from the page and make > some type of matching results page for each entry that found the words the > user typed in. > > Any other thoughts? There is no compression this way,. but maybe there > doesn't need to be. I don't know how to automate populating a table, but I > could use the cut / paste feature. > > Any other thoughts? I know how to do the above and the PHP commands to > use --- I wanted to ask before I got started for any tips instead of > re-starting. > > Ron