26649Searching external or internal webpageshttp://www.php-scripts.com/php_diary/010500.php3Miss 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 :)PHP > Tips and Tutorials > SearchingOct 16, 2006
If your PHP installation is Unix/Linux, rather than Windows, you don't have access to PHP's COM abilities. This makes it difficult to extract infomation from Microsoft Word documents.
Searching each HTML page for keywords could become pretty involved in a dynamic environment and put a lot of load on the server. It would be more efficient for me to allow users to search a smaller pool of specific information. While writing and creating these diary entries I have tried to use descriptive meta tags so that these diary entries would draw the attention of external search engines, but also so that when I got to the point where I would create an onsite or internal search engine, I'd have a useful pool of information to work with. Also, I went back through every page and updated the meta tags so that they would be properly indexing the content in that days diary entry.
Ever wanted to know when google crawls your site?, In this short tutorial we will cover how to send yourself an email when google has visited your site.
basics of PHP and continue it with how to enable visitors to search your site, using PHP.
We'll take you step by step on a fairly simple search feature. From the actual form, to the results and several things you can do to make your search better.
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