We had earlier been using the Alkaline search engine from Vestris Inc. After moving to a different web hosting system, for various technical reasons, we are no longer able to use this excellent search spider. After considering various alternatives, we have decided to use the Google™ Freesearch.

The article from Devshed proved to be a helpful resource, which contains a lot of information and examples.

This zipped file contains the relevant files that have been used for the search feature on this web site. It was put together in a hurry and is not really an excellent example of using PHP but, hopefully, it would give you some ideas to improvise.

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