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Miss me yesterday? lol :) I got a few emails saying, "I can't see the diary entry." The reason you couldn't see one is because there wasn't one :) I am going to try and study PHP every day until I feel that I no longer need to study aloud and online. I work some days in excess of 15 hours and have no time to study, so if you see no diary entry, I either didn't learn anything new or I didn't study that particular day. Whenever I write something, I do it in a sense *live* therefore you shortly after I code the HTML and hit save, my FTP editor FTPs these changes immediately onto the website. I suppose I could just add an entry to say hello or something, or ramble aloud about what I ate for the day, but I think you would grade me down on the useful rating scale considerably if I did do that. Who knows, though? I may do that once in awhile. Anyway, the readership of these diary entries is increasing, according to my access logs, and I thank you for tuning in, so to speak. How long these diary entries continue will be in direct proportion to the learning I do, and the number of email requests I get to explore PHP further. Please take a minute and use the form to send me ideas for future diary entries, if you would like to see me explore a new topic, or an existing one in greater depth. I have learned a great deal already and have started several new PHP scripts projects that will show up as full script downloads in the future. With the information in these diary entries, you should have been able to start some PHP projects of your own, as well :)

This hands on PHP Programming article provides the knowledge necessary to design and develop a search engine for your website using PHP version 4.0 and above. Making a search engine for your website with PHP is really easy and provides substantial functionality required by most of the small to medium websites. This article introduces every steps of the development, including both design and PHP programming. Basic computer skills and knowledge of HTML fundamentals are required. Ok, let?s begin now.

The right search engine on your website won't bring you more traffic but it will help your visitors to better locate things so it will keep them on your pages. A good search engine implemented can increase your hits with almost 30% and this is tested. I'm not talking just to have a tutorial.

This tutorial discusses creating an advanced fuzzy search engine using PHP and a database. The tutorial uses the example of a wiki application, but the concepts can easily be applied to other applications in different languages.