Hi, I'm going to be needing a search engine script for my site. The site will pretty much be the search engine and then the pages that appear as results.

How I think it should work is, I'm going to have pages set up on the site. Each page will have like for things let's say. What I'm going to want the search engine to be able to do is have parameters. The users will then choose a parameter for the 4 categories and maybe some keywords. They will then hit search. The

The engine will find all the pages on my site that match the criteria and list them. I'd like the results to be shown a specific way.

I have been looking quite a bit lately for a script like this, but cannot find one that allows for the parameters part. Does anyone know of one?

I'd be willing to make it myself, but I know no php so some information on writing a search engine of that type would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Edit: Sorry, one thing I do not want it to do is browse page content to give results. I just want it to look at the tags/parameters of each page and find the ones that match.

check your luck on hotscripts.com

Have google search your site? Run a google search restricted to your domain?

You may want to look into Zoom search engine by: wrensoft.com

Heard some positive things about it, but never tried it myself.

Terry

Hey guys, thanks for the responses, but I think for this I'm going to need to get some custom programming done.

Thanks for replies, but this is settled.

I use a search-engine script called KSEARCH it works perfect for 600 pages

that would be an interesting search engine

Keep in mind Ksearch has no support and it seems whoever created it did not touch his/her site in 5 years, but it works perfectly on my site(s)..

http://www.kscripts.com/

Okay, I've figured out an example of what I want.

Most car sites have a search function where you choose options from multiple dropdown boxes and then hit search. That's exactly what I need.

It will not be for cars, but I will have a bunch of pages on my site with different products, for example. The search will list everything that has the exact results.

Carmax Example (http://carmax.com/dyn/searchengine/searchresults.asp?NewUsed=1&SearchType=0&CityMarket=1&CityMarketLabel=Atlanta&Location=7103&LocationLabel=Town+Center&HasCookie=true&PageType=1&Make=LE&MakeLabel=Lexus&Model=SC30&ModelLabel=SC+300&Price=5&PriceLabel=Any+Price) that is exactly what i need.

I use the script smart search from smarterscripts dot com. They have a free version you can look at and see if it searves your purpose.

You can visit Frooggy dot com , it uses this script....

Good Luck