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Dec 01.2004

hey everyone. im the webmaster for a big computer game website called Mortal Kombat Australia. we’re only new, but we have adding certain aspects to it over the past few months. one of those which i am now attempting is the internal site search.

i have looked on this site as well as a few other javascript sites for a great internal search engine, but not having the best of luck.

[url]www.mortalkombataustralia.com[/url] <— to give u an idea of where i am going with this. basically on the news page i want to add a table with the search box in it, thats fairly tame. however, the results i want to appear on the same style of page you see in where the main content is. i just haven’t found one to accomodate me as yet.

any suggestions? i know this is probably tame stuff compared to what you guys are used to dealing with but you’d be doing me a great service in helping me choose a very versatile but great site search script.

thanks for your patience.

Zen Frequency
Mortal Kombat Australia

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@jbotDec 01.2004 — don't use JS for an internal search. no offence, but that's what an amateur would do, not a fine pro like your good self. you need to use a serverside language, like PHP or ASP. after all, 10-15% of users have no JS support, which is a massive chunk of your potential audience. having a JS search engine of your site, would therefore mean that functionality of your site wouldn't work for them and would make your site appear broken - not a good advertisement and not very professional.
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@ZenFrequencyauthorDec 01.2004 — hey thanks for your reply. lol im hardly professional but thanks, i never considered that mate. so do i just search under php then for an internal site search?
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@jbotDec 01.2004 — [i]Originally posted by ZenFrequency [/i]

[B]do i just search under php then for an internal site search? [/B][/QUOTE]

yeah, you could do. there's probably plenty off-the-shelf PHP scripts you could get, that way you won't have to slog one out for yourself.
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@ZenFrequencyauthorDec 01.2004 — hmm theres so many. im not really experienced enough to find one that is just simple enough hehe
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@jbotDec 01.2004 — [i]Originally posted by ZenFrequency [/i]

[B]im not really experienced enough to find one that is just simple enough[/B][/QUOTE]

only you know how simple you are ... i mean, how you simple you need it ?
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