a search in a specified page!

[semiColon]

Hello every one.How could I include any web page a search engine that just searches in that page? Anybody know something about : full-text search? what is it? how can i use it? and why?Thanks a lot.

[Jesdisciple]

I think that would have to be JavaScript. My implementation would be to find all text nodes in the DOM and do indexOf() for each of them; then (I imagine) you could highlight the ones you found.Why isn't Ctrl+F good enough?

[justsomeguy]

Full-text search is something you use to search in a database column that has a data type of "text".

[Reg Edit]

Full-text search is something you use to search in a database column that has a data type of "text".

Or a data type of XML. (info)

[justsomeguy]

I didn't even know that Microsoft added an XML data type to SQL Server. What's the difference between xml and text?

[Reg Edit]

I didn't even know that Microsoft added an XML data type to SQL Server. What's the difference between xml and text?

For instance, a stored procedure can include XQuery stuff that addresses elements within the XML field, without retrieving the record.

[semiColon]

Thanks a lot...chris, i have to use a PHP.. it's 4 an exam (:..justsomeguy,thanks, i'm know reading about it (:..Reg Edit,thanks for that (:i have to do it only with: PHP, xhtml, MySQL....Do you see the box search in the bottom of this topic? this is what i mean (:..

[justsomeguy]

Do you see the box search in the bottom of this topic? this is what i mean (:

Apparently it doesn't work very well.

You searched for: PHPUnfortunately your search didn't return any results.

[Reg Edit]

Do you see the box search in the bottom of this topic? this is what i mean (:

If you want a search box on a web page, you will probably place it in an html form, and when that form is submitted, it will submit the form contents. (See the w3schools stuff on html forms).The page that receives the form submission (a PHP page in your case) will be a search results page, but it will contain some server-side script that executes a MySQL database query. You will have to design that query from your knowledge of what data is being searched and what results are to be returned. You say the "current page" is to be searched; therefore your query needs to search the database by reference to the data that was used to display that page. So the form fields you submit will probably need to include some context information about that (which will probably be hidden fields).The PHP page will take the results of the database query and format these results into html for the browser to display the search results page.

[semiColon]

Is it okay if use this stmt:SELECT * FROM articles WHERE body LIKE '%$keyword%'; is it okay to use that syntax?i know that it's slow and inefficient, but i couldn't understand the: Full-text search until now. I have to understand this method these two days..

[eko_wardoyo]

for full text search you can use this syntax:SELECT * FROM articles WHERE body='$keyword';

[SpOrTsDuDe.Reese]

Just do java script:do.Search()Dunno if that searches in page