Make a Search Engine For Your Website With PHP By: Rory Canyon     This hands on PHP Programming article provides the knowledge necessary to design and develop a search engine for your website using PHP version 4.0 and above. Making a search engine for your website with PHP is really easy and provides substantial functionality required by most of the small to medium websites. This article introduces every steps of the development, including both design and PHP programming. Basic computer skills and knowledge of HTML fundamentals are required. Ok, let's begin now. Step 1: Design Search Box Under your website root, make a file called search.htm or anything you like and type in the following code: Web Search Step 2: Write search.php file. It is the core of your website search engine. Under your website root, create a file called search.php or anything you like. With above, you can give hints to your users when they forget to enter a keyword. Now let's go through all the files or articles in your website. The following scripts read, process files and check whether the files contain $keyword. If $keyword is found in the file, the file address will be saved in an array-type variable. Now, combine the programs listed above, you will find all the related results in your websites will be found and listed. A further optimization of the search engine can be taken by adding the following, 1,list the title of all searching results REPLACE THE FOLLOWING if(eregi("$keyword",$data)){ $array[]="$dir/$file"; } WITH if(eregi("$keyword",$data)){ if(eregi("(.+) ",$data,$m)){ $title=$m["1"]; } else{ $title="no title"; } $array[]="$dir/$file $title"; } 2,Add links to searching results CHANGE THE FOLLOWING foreach($array as $value){ echo "$value"."\n"; } TO foreach($array as $value){ list($filedir,$title)=split("[ ]",$value,"2"); echo " $filedir "."\n"; } 3 Set time limit for PHP execution ADD THE FOLLOWING AT THE BEGINNING OF PHP FILES set_time_limit("600"); The above unit is second，so ten minutes is the litmit. Now, combine all the above programs and get the complete search.php file as following, Now, you have made a search engine for your website, enjoy it! About The Author Rory Canyon is the founder of ScriptMenu.com, a free web directory for PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, PERL, XML, Java, JavaScript, Flash, CFML, Python and other web programming resources. For more information, visit http://www.scriptmenu.com Article Source: zeronese.net article directory. Article Word Count Appx. : 550 Article Category: Articles » Web-Development » PHP See all articles by Rory Canyon Note: Copying of article contents in whole is permitted provided that article body and article author by-lines are kept intact and unchanged. Hyperlinks and/or URLs including article source link provided by authors and/or zeronese must remain active at all times.       The views and opinions of authors expressed on Zeronese Article Directory web sites do not necessarily state or reflect those of the Zeronese.net .