Asp Form Search Engine? Not A Clue By The Way

[Guest s-mc]

Hi,I'm looking to do the following:A page with a form, that when data is inputted, it acts as keywords which queries 3 other pages for those keywords, with a a submit button, and if any pages match those words, it will create a new page dynamically and display those pages as a list that are hyperlinked so when they are clicked it opens those pages with matching data. Its essentially a small, local search engine. Its to demonstrate ASP dynamic pages for a presentation on ASP. It was given to me by my lecturer, to find out about ASP and I want to demonstrate it in use, but I dont' know much about it as in how to make them up,I'm still learning HTML.Would I need to create a microsoft database file, and what software would I need to run the asp files - dreamweaver, etc?Hope someone can help, even just code and follow through is enough, I haven't much time to learn it right now. I just like the idea of it. Any idea's friends?Thanks

[justsomeguy]

If you want to search inside regular HTML files, you'll need to use the filesystem functions to open each file to search, and the regular expression functions to look for a match inside the file text.http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_ref_filesystem.asphttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&saf...oq=&aqi=g10You could store the data in a database instead of files if you want to search to be quicker, it takes more time to open several files than it does to connect to a database. In order to run ASP files you need a web server that is capable of running ASP, something like Dreamweaver isn't able to run ASP, you need a web server.