site search engines in dreamweaver

[tomwaits4noman]

Hi all
badly suck need a site search engine for a site I have designed.
see link below

http://www.reddanhogan.ie/search property.html

Its a mixture of tick boxes and jump menus but I have no idea how to make this work. This is the first site that I have built from scratch myself, and am more familiar with the design aspect rather than programming side.

At the moment there is no CMS in place, I am trying to install zencart or oscommerce as a database, but is this needed for the search engine?

The site is live on a server...

Is there a way using php or java or asp to make the search engine active, the pages are already created see

http://www.reddanhogan.ie/residential property.html

If anyone has any advise on this appreciate it, or tutorials to help me out? thanks.

 

[johnwm]

Looks like you need a selector not a search engine. You can get some of this stuff pre-written - most of the standard CMSs provide the functionality that you need - but you will still need reasonable understanding of the technology behind the code to make it work commercially.

1. Start by deciding which backend language you will be comfortable with (suggest ASP if you are a MS house, or PHP otherwise as a start point).
2. Get a host that supports that technology.
3. Pick a CMS based on that technology.
4. Have a look at

http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

When you have your server and CMS up and running, post back in the appropriate forum with any specific problems you are getting.

For guidance on general forum usage try faq222-2244.

Forums that may help with specific questions:
forum1246
forum333
forum434

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[clivehenderson]

Hello Brian, Nice design
A database solution is probably best to aim at.
e.g.php/MYSQL if you are linux hosted
1.Firstly you could put all the search criteria into a form
with the seach image as the button.
2. when the form is submitted it goes to a page with recordsets that search the data database with the search criteria submitted by the form.
Hope this helps
Regards
Clive