Php search engine

shinesmithdas · August 5th, 2008, 12:34 AM

Hi,

I need a php search engine option for a real estate website. If anybody know how to design that or any online tutorial is available for that pls let me know .

Thanks for advance,

Shinesmith

alisha0512 · August 5th, 2008, 02:50 AM

you can search on google.

moojoo · August 5th, 2008, 10:45 AM

Moved to PHP Forum.

unitedcraig · August 6th, 2008, 05:47 AM

The easist way would be install a google search function on your site mate to be honest

unitedcraig · August 6th, 2008, 05:48 AM

Or, just had an idea.

Have you had any experience with Wordpress? If you design the site using wordpress as the basis of your site, all wordpress templates come with a search function included, that way you avoid the need for google branding on your site

http://wordpress.org/

Hope this helps

Craig

alexgeek · August 6th, 2008, 06:32 AM

Here is a core class file for searching from my custom Blog, it may put you on the right track:

Code:


			
class search {
function searchFor($s) {
    global $blog;
    $blog->connectDB;
    $sql = "SELECT * FROM $blog->blogtbl WHERE title LIKE '%$s%' OR entry LIKE '%$s%' ORDER BY id DESC";
    $query = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
    $row_sql = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
    $total = mysql_num_rows($query);
    $this->total = $total;
        if($total > 0) {
        $this->query = $query;
        return true;
        } else
            {
        return false;
        }
    }
    function showBlogs() {
                while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($this->query)) {//echo out the results
                        echo '<div class="blogentry">
                        
                        <h3 class="blogtitle"><strong><a href="/blog/', $row['link'], '">', $row['title'], '</a></strong></h3> - <span class="date">', strftime('%d %b %Y', $row['timestamp']), '</span>
                        
                        <span class="category">', $row['cat'], '</span>
                        
                        <p>', strip_tags(substr($row['entry'], 0, 100)), '.....</p>', // change 100 to be how many characters you want
                        
                        '</div><hr class="break" />';
            }
    }
    function totalBlogs() {
    return $this->total;
    }
}

moojoo · August 6th, 2008, 09:24 AM

Textpattern ftw =P.

Code:

<txp:search_input section="search" button="Search" label="Search" />

Or fancy pants with rss_live_search and a custom form

Code:

<txp:rss_live_search label="Search: " inputsize="25" showbutton="1" buttonval="Search" searchto="search" excerpts="1" notfound="No matches were found." form="search_results" />

shinesmithdas · August 10th, 2008, 01:19 AM

Hi Friends,

Thank u very much for all of your advice. But i need the search engine like this http://www.halconrealestate.com/. this website have a search option in the left side . My client want this knid of one . If anybody know how to do this ls let me know . Thanks for advance .

Regards,

Shinesmith

moojoo · August 11th, 2008, 09:30 AM

Basically that i sjust hitting the database with the values from the inputs. Pretty straight forward.