Wanted: A JavaScript Search Box

VICE · Joined: Jan 02, 2005 Posts: 9

I am looking for a javascript search box that can search for web pages hosted locally, or in a specified directory.

Example: [ Sports ] : (Search) ,

Which would return a Sports.html page when [ Sports ] is typed in the text string and (Search) is clicked.

I have tried a drop down box, but it doesn't seem to fit the style of page that I am writing, and I would really like to use this search type box.

Can Anyone Help?

Many TIA

VICE
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Topic moved from Software Coders to Web Developers

TrishaM · Joined: Dec 12, 2002 Posts: 886

Hi - I know you said you're looking for a javascript function for this, but for years I've been using FDS Search Engine (both free and paid versions are available) which is Perl/CGI.

You can check it out here: FDSE Search Engine

The free version is a good way to try it out, but it has a link back to the developer's site which you can eliminate by buying it.

Fair warning - although it works great, it does take a bit of effort to get it installed and configured - which if you're fairly computer/code/web development savvy shouldn't be too tough (it's just probably not best for web design n00bies). If you're comfortable modifying it's header/footer files, then you can customize the "results" page so it matches the look and feel of your site and provides a seemless search results experience for your visitors. Also, if you have a really large site it might take a while to index all your pages. It's a good idea to reindex periodically if you make frequent site changes and add pages.

I highly recommend it, but perhaps someone else will be able to suggest a javascript one for you....

tyler785 · Joined: Mar 08, 2008 Posts: 2

If those pages are not in a DB anywhere, and if you have php on your server then you could do some command line calls to get all pages that are in your documentroot and put them in an array.

Then you can use some javascript to search through your list and dynamically return results to you page. you can then build your HTML and write it back to the page using something as simple as