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Hey everyone,
I have a couple of website related questions.
Say, I wanted to shove a bunch of pages into one folder on my webhost server, and I wanted to make a search engine that specificely searched through those pages, you know looked at the metatags and showed a search result page that I design myself. How would I go about doing this?

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Say I wanted to make an option on my website where people could register a username and password, and then they log in, and it brings them to their own "Account Page" and it shows whatever activity I want it to show to that person. How would I go about this?

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About the search engine thing, I thought I heard somewhere along the line that Google offers some sort of website search. Don't count on it tho, I could be wrong.

And as for the members account thing. I believe that requires PHP stuff, if Im not mistaken. Now I don't know anything about PHP but this site was created with it, so maybe asking one of the mods or the admin himself would get you some info. Then again, I'm sure there's other web geniuses on this forum that could help you out!
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Meade87 wrote: Say, I wanted to shove a bunch of pages into one folder on my webhost server, and I wanted to make a search engine that specificely searched through those pages, you know looked at the metatags and showed a search result page that I design myself. How would I go about doing this?
Just use metatags on those pages only.
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Im looking for how to make a search engine to search for these pages on my server
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There are lots of free site search scripts out there that you can download. Make certain tho they are written in a language your host supports. Perl, PHP, or ASP. Although all are cros paltform, ASP is more common on windoze hosts, while perl and php are more common on *Nix boxes. I do run all three on one of my windoze webservers at work, while the *NIX hosting service we deal wit only supports PHP and Perl.
As far as a logon, you'd need some type of databse to store the user info and then verify the username and password, and probably to store some fo the user info. Look into Mamabo, or some of the other content managment software, or something like PHPBB ( I beleieve what Matt runs here ) which has some CMS addins..
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Clarence wrote:Google offers a website search:
https://services.google.com/cobrand/fre ... ?accept=on
I knew it!!
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