[bens1901]

Hi. I've got a site hosted with PHP and MySQL. I'd like to create a "Search" tool that would have all of my static pages indexed.

I don't know if this is possible, but I'd really some php tool that I can say "go index my pages" and then it will insert the stuff into a db table. Then I simply provide a "search" text field on my web page which would invoke the search query.

Does anyone know of a free php+mysql tool that would let me perform searches? Also, since I'm using a hosting service, I am not allow to install any software, so I would need a php driven program.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

-Ben

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by bens1901:
Hi. I've got a site hosted with PHP and MySQL. I'd like to create a "Search" tool that would have all of my static pages indexed.

I don't know if this is possible, but I'd really some php tool that I can say "go index my pages" and then it will insert the stuff into a db table. Then I simply provide a "search" text field on my web page which would invoke the search query.

Does anyone know of a free php+mysql tool that would let me perform searches? Also, since I'm using a hosting service, I am not allow to install any software, so I would need a php driven program.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

-Ben

My personal fave is http://www.phpdig.net/ - I've got it implemented on a few of my sites and it does the job beautifully. The source is also pretty straight-forward so you can customise it to your heart's content.

It works by spidering your site as any normal spider would work, and can recurse up to 20 levels (although you'd need to go to sleep while you waited for THAT to finish!). It also logs search queries, so you can perform 'recent searches' or 'top 10 searches' if you wanted.

I've customised my own version of it, so let me know if you need any help setting it up or modifying it.

[bens1901]

Thanks :-)

I'll give it a try.

-Ben