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Create Next and Previous Pages for Search Results

This code covers the steps required to create Next and Previous links and pages for Search Results limited by a certain number of results per page.

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A Simple Web Search Engine

This article shows you how to use PHP and a MySQL (or any SQL database) to create your own basic search engine. Covers creating SQL tables, Using regular expressions to match keywords, Connecting to the database, and Returning the results.

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Searching a Directory of Files

This tutorial shows you how to dynamically compile the list of files in a given directory. You can then conduct keyword searches on the compiled list for finding matching files.

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Getting and Using Meta Tags for Search Criteria

PHP has a built-in function to easily fetch meta tags from php or html pages called the get_meta_tags function. It will take all the meta tags and build associative arrays with the name of the associative array being the meta name and value of the a...

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Searching External or Internal Webpages

This tutorial explains how to conduct keyword searches on a given Webpage. It basically shows how to count and display the number of times a specific keyword appears on the Webpage.

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Slapping together a search engine

ht://dig will take care of indexing and searching your html pages, but if you have very few html pages, and must of your &"content&" resides in BLOBs in your database. You can''t do anything useful using a like searchword query...

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Search This!

This tutorial shows you how to add search capabilities to your site using PHP3 and ht://Dig. This tutorial will cover the following steps needed to get these two great Open Source applications working together: Installing ht://Dig, Configuring ht://D...

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