Search Engine 01
[ Simple Search ]
[ Power Search ]
Description Powerful file search script. Searching for a word or phrase will return all file names which contain that string. Use exact phrase, or booleans AND and OR. Control what type of files and which directories to be searchable. Choose how many records to be returned. Files index.html - this file; search.pl - the script itself; search.conf - the configuration file; demo1.html - sample file for simple searching; demo2.html - sample file for power searching; /images - directory, contains search icons; /subdir - directory, contains sample searchable files Instalation Open 'search.conf'. Change the following: $basedir - the server path to the directory which contains files or directories you want to be searched; $baseurl - the full URL of the directory which contains files or directories you want to be searched; @files - the actual files or directories to be searched, you can use *.* for all files to be searched or you can use *.html, *.jpg, *.zip to define type of the searchable files; $icon_src - the full URL location of search icons; $title - the title of your returned page; $body - the body tags of your returned page; $font - the font to be used for your returned page Open 'demo1' and 'demo2'. Change the 'form action' to point to your script location. Do NOT change anything else, otherwise the script won't work! Permissions search.pl - 755 search.conf - 755 How to call Copy the form from 'demo1.html' or 'demo2.html' and paste it wherever you want. Once the script is installed, you can have as many forms as you want anywhere on your pages. Using The sample searchable files are set with different file extensions to show all possibilities of the script. Try searchnig for e - all file names contain that letter. Choose to display 10 or 20 records. Play with 'search.conf' - put as '@files' *.html or *.txt to limit the searching. Select boolean OR and search for 'html conf'.