I am new in Wev dev. I have developed a web site that would be published on CD ROM, and there are lot of html pages. I want to put a search engine on it. Can I put a search engine on CD-ROM site? If yes, please help me to find a free script for it.
@JonaApr 22.2003 — #Probably not because it has to be server-side to see all the files and although it's not on the server, Javascript does not have permission to view all files/folders without ActiveX.
@AdamGundryApr 22.2003 — #You could use a client side "search engine" written in Javascript, which basically matches the word entered to a predetermined list then redirects to the correct page.
@JonaApr 22.2003 — #That wouldn't be automated, though, Adam--Would it? :p That code there confused me--I couldn't tell if it was the banner code or not. ?
@AdamGundryApr 22.2003 — #No, all such scripts I've seen basically get you to enter a list of keywords and a URL, then when the user enters a word it is compared (usually via a regular expression) to the words, and if a match is found you are redirected/it shows a message.
@JonaApr 22.2003 — #I'd say quite limited, especially in comparison with a sever-side language (unavailable in this situation, unfortunately), such as PHP with a built-in function that displays the percentage of relevance.
@JonaApr 22.2003 — #Those are .chm files: Compiled HTML files, also known as Help files. You will need an HTML compiler (try searching Google.com for it) to make this type of file. [i]However[/i] I'd like to point out that this will not search the HTML pages inside the CD, only the COMPILED HTML pages that are compiled with the compiler.
@David_RobinsApr 24.2003 — #I think you may be on the wrong track with Javascript
for this function . I also looked at providing a search engine
on a website CD , and concluded that without being able to
guarantee access to a CGI search engine then I would have to use an incorpoarted JAVA search engine. Here is a link to a few freeware and commercial ones , some state they will
work offline for this function , although there may be page