[thelist] Can JS Search a Site

[Douglas Rehg]

Someone else correct me if I am wrong, but since JS is normally executed
on the client browser, not the server, you won't be able to search a
site for the given words.  You could use Js for the page you are on, but
I think that is about it.

The only way I could think to try it is to have the calling search page
open a new page that loads the script that will do the actual searching
in frame "a", and have it open the first page of the site in frame "b".
Then the script would go through and search for the string you want, and
use the links in the page to crawl through the site.

You would have to store the results in an array and pass it back to the
calling page, as well as store all of the links an an array to make sure
you crawled through them all.  That might work, but I think it would be
easier to set it up with php, cf, asp or jsp.

Doug.

On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 11:42, Syed Zeeshan Haider wrote:
> Hello Experts,
> While using search system of Adobe Photoshop's Help web pages (obviously
> they are on my local drive) a question rose in my mind. Can there be
> some searching code of JavaScript which could search a site for the
> given words and could return the results as they are returned on search
> engines (Yahoo!, Google, etc.) I think on most search engines it is done
> by PHP or something like that but not JS. But I want the search to be
> done by JS. Is it possible?
> Any helping URL's will also be highly appreciated.
> Thank you,
> Syed Zeeshan Haider.
> http://syedzeeshanhaider.faithweb.com/
>
>
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