MAKING A WEBSITE help SEARCH BAR?

Question

Hi all, I'm thinking of making a website similar to lets say www.freeads.co.uk, ok well how do i add a search bar on my website for searching for ads that is placed on my website???

Or lets say if i was selling things on my website and people wanted to search for a specific item they can search it up.

I'M NOT ON ABOUT HOW TO ADD A SEARCH ENGINE TO MY WEBSITE AS THAT'S ALL I GOT SO FAR FROM OTHER PEOPLE!!!!

Answer 1

to be honest i dont know but i think i know what ure on about...wen u type in the thing that you want and it comes up with choises for u and u want to add that to your site(not like a search engine though more like a...ermm...a thing that locates things on your website) well i think you can either go on some sites like sites that you would use on bebo and myspace and maybe if you can find a html code you could download them...i dont reli know ive done it before but im reli sorry that i dont remember...i helped my dad do it if you type in something into google like how to add ....(wat ever you want to add)....and look for wiki help i think that it might help you better because it givs a better description of how to do it because im ****...hope i could help...=)

sorry if i couldnt x*x

Answer 2

Well, You need to add a internal search engine to your website. This will involve your website being coded arround a database (mysql) and powered by server side codeing (php). This is what I do as a living.

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With your description, I feel thats not the road you want to go down (contact me when you do) BUT what you want is probably Google Custom Search (http://www.google.com/coop/cse/).

This will ask Google to regulary spider your website and log its content, from this you add a small code to your website. This will direct visitors to a internal search powered by google.

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(contact me for any questions)

Happy To Help!

Hosker4u

Answer 3

SIMPLE!!!

#1 Add all the elements that you would like people to be able to search into a mysql database located on your webserver.

#2 Place an HTML Form with a search field and button on the page you want people to search from.

#3 Make the action of the HTML Search Form send to itself. Ex. action=""

#4 at the top of the page create a php script that will Retrieve the Posted data from the form use it to search the mysql database and echo out the results on the page that was searched from.

You will need the following...

Mysql server on your webserver.  Very Common and Free.

php on your webserver  Very common and Free

and the ability to code in php,HTML