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(Message started by: Support Staff on Mar 29^th, 2004, 11:23am)

Title: Search form on the website, search engine
Post by Support Staff on Mar 29^th, 2004, 11:23am

(we received this from Portugal:)

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I tried your web publishing software and liked very much the little that I have seen, since it is very easy start working and it's easy to update. I would like to ask 2 questions:

1 - I am interested to implement a search tool. I would like to know the possibilities of the search function in one site.
Does is give a list of items found, or does it give only one result per search. For instance if I look for the word "Smith", does it give a list of all Smiths or it gives only one ?

2 - Is there any possibility to interact with a data base. This questions may be related the thge previous one. For instance, if you have books, you may want to list authors or titles.
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In order to implement a search function on a Website, you must install a "search script" on the server. There are dozens of different scripts with hundreds of different features. Your host might have some of these scripts preinstalled (take a look to your webspace's "Control panel").

These search features have nothing to do with the editor (you will just insert a search box within your pages that will point to the script on the server; to "point" the script you will need to edit the "Form start maker", you will have to select GET or POST as method and to insert the path of the search script; alternatively the script manual will provide you a search code to be inserted with "Insert >HTML")

As for Database interaction, several web servers do provide you MySQL database capabilites, or other databases. You should learn programming languages such as PHP or ASP (= codes that you may insert within EWE pages with "Insert >HTML"). There are hundreds of books and websites about these subjects :)