Re: Search engine

Truth be told, Google's free slap-it-on-your-web site search tool (http://www.google.com/services/websearch.html) will do everything you want and save you a lot of coding. Assuming this is for actsministries.org which seems to be a useful resource of information; it is probably well indexed by Google and updates will be reflected reasonably quickly. On my most popular site, which is sort of a resource, Google is usually 24-48 hours behind changes. Doing your own search coding is best when you want to allow users to search data in a database (rather than on web pages). Good luck, Jeffrey Ron Piggott (PHP) wrote:

What I haven't figured out is how to crawl my site. If I knew how to crawl my site I could write a basic search engine and develop it over time. This is the crucial issue I need help with. I have a really basic search engine I wrote last year. I told my web site what pages the user could search ... as in I keyed in the URL's I am giving my site a face lift and making some serious changes to it ... I have my database out of date ... I would like to crawl my site once a day to update what changes I made during the past 24 hours and delete HTML files which no longer exist. If someone knew how to retrieve various <a href=""> then I could start with something and build on it over time ... Ron On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 11:44 +0100, Shaun A Riches wrote:

What about the MySQL "LIKE" command? Research it. This is assuming your data is stored properly without redundant data and in a MySQL database. ___________________ Shaun Riches Computer Science Student -----Original Message----- From: Ron Piggott (PHP) [mailto:ron.php@actsministries.org] Sent: Thu 28/09/2006 03:44 To: PHP DB Subject: [PHP-DB] Search engine ___________________ Shaun Riches Computer Science Student -----Original Message----- From: Ron Piggott (PHP) [mailto:ron.php@actsministries.org] Sent: Thu 28/09/2006 03:44 To: PHP DB Subject: [PHP-DB] Search engine Has anyone wrote a search engine for the web site? I am wondering if someone has the time to help me walk through doing this. Ron