Search can be particularly hard to do well. Most of the (free,
install-yourself) solutions out there are incredibly hard to set up
and get working correctly. Sphinx (which this forum uses) is
incredibly powerful and does an amazing job of returning relevant
results. It is also very very configurable. But it has a
configuration interface only a programmer could love.
Have you looked into Google’s personal search solution? They have a
way where you can configure a particular site search and then embed a
little JavaScript in your page, and presto – instant google-powered
search of your site. It’s very plug-and-play, and free, although
there may be some limitations on what sorts of business sites you can
use it on.
I believe that Yahoo offers a site-search facility as well.
As far as your form goes, yes, that will be an issue. You would need
to use the Multiple Forms action to segment the page into more than
one form. By default, Freeway wraps the entire page in one form tag,
and form tags cannot be nested. The Multiple Forms action fixes this.
Hope this helps,
Walter
On Jan 31, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Mr worm wrote:
My client has aked if it is at all? possible to have a search
feature implemented into the site i have built.
This is NOT an external search feature, purely to search the site
internally for info etc on the site its self! Say a particular
article for example!
Is this possible? I have looked all morning and found sweet FA…
I have tried atomz.com and have not recieved anything back in 2
weeks so they are not a consideration!
Or is this a no goer??? myself I can’t see why they need it, but I
suppose the only thing I can relate it to is the search feature on
this forum at the top of this page!
I already have a form on the page, so will this effect the search
feature in any way?
worm
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