Developing A Site Search Engine With PHP And MySQL
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The key to developing a successful web site is content. Sure, your site can be packed with 10,000 50-page articles, but what good are these articles if your visitors can't find what they're after? In this article Mitchell shows us how to create a site search engine with PHP and MySQL. He develops the MySQL database and PHP script that will allow us to enter several keywords to search dynamic content.How many times have you visited a web site related to some topic that you're interested in and found that they don't have a search engine built into their site? Chances are that once you noticed this, you either hit the back button or closed your browser window within a couple of seconds.
The key to developing a successful web site is content. Sure, your site can be packed with 10,000 50-page articles, but what good are these articles if your visitors can't find the content they're after? In this article we’re going to take a look at creating a simple site search engine with PHP and MySQL. We will develop the MySQL database and PHP scripts that will allow us to enter several keywords to search on.
To test the source code and samples described in this article, you should have access to a Windows, Linux or Unix server running Apache, PHP v4.1 or later, and MySQL. You should also have an intermediate understanding of the MySQL console application, SQL in general, and PHP.
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