creating search database on website

[Dbroga01]

I am designing a business website that wishes me to create a search database.&nbsp;&nbsp;Though I have programmed many pages in html, i find myself lacking the knowledge to create the database.&nbsp;&nbsp;If anyone out there could help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.<br><br>Feel free to email me with a response,<br><br>Dan<br><A HREF="mailtobroga01@villanova.edu">Dbroga01@villanova.edu</A>

 

[palbano]

Dear Dan,<br><br>Not sure what your intentions are but to build a search feature for your site into a database you need to index your site first. In other words you crawl the pages and create a row in your database for each page where one column is the textual content of the page. Other columns can contain any other information you can think of.<br><br>This becomes more complicated if any of your site is generated dynamically from database information.<br><br>Sound difficult? It is. This is why I would suggest using a product that handles the indexing or cataloging for you. There are free products that work remotely and of course commercial products. <br><br>The only one I've ever worked with is Microsoft Site Server Search so I can't offer any advice about other products.<br><br>&quot;But, that's just my opinion... I could be wrong&quot;.<br>-pete<br>