I have used http://www.phpdig.net/ for a few years on my personal site. Works well currently (over 20k) pages in database Paul Clerkin - Web Developer HR Adworks - 280 Smith Street, MB, R3C 1K2 http://www.hradworks.ca/ mbjobs - 100% Manitoba Jobs http://www.mbjobs.ca/ -----Original Message----- From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Adams Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:10 PM To: thelist at lists.evolt.org Subject: Re: [thelist] php search within site > How does people write their own search engine for their sites? > > I used to create a database where the individual content of the pages are stored in the database records. This seems not to be a really good way since its more troublesome. > > Is there any tutorial or discussion on the other website that talk about this? You might want to take a look at a some popular open-source solutions to see how they do it. I've heard good things about these: http://search.mnogo.ru/ http://www.htdig.org/ -- sarah adams web developer & programmer portfolio: http://sarah.designshift.com blog: http://hardedge.ca -- * * Please support the community that supports you. * * http://evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester and archives of thelist go to: http://lists.evolt.org Workers of the Web, evolt !