Making a search page

[stevenr]

I need to make a search page for my companys website. Is it possible to make one using just HTML?.

Any links or help would be appreciated

Cheers

Steve

 

[LeonTang]

Hi Steve,

It isn't possible. Normally you will need a database to store the keywords so that when you do a search, you will be able get the appropriate links that you link your keywords with. So for example in your database you have a 'Search' table with the columns:-

keywords link description
----------- ---- -------------
product

http://www.abc.com/products/index.html

Product's page
...

Your keywords normally would have a lot instead of 1. Like products, product and maybe your products' name etc. so that when a person do a search, it will list out all the products available in your company's website through the link

http://www.abc.com/products/index.html.

So since we would need a database for seach engines, we would definately need to query it. But HTML does not allow the querying of database. So you will need to use some languages like javascript, ASP, JSP, servlets etc.

Regards,
Leon If you need additional help, you can email to me at zaoliang@hotmail.com I don't guaranty that I will be able to solve your problems but I will try my best