Search function in web pages

[eagle1]

Hello guys.

I would like to create a search function that will look in a Folder at
all the html files and look for matches. The output would return the page
it is located and the complete string you searched.
The thing is that this would be created using Javascript or a stand alone JAVA
app (forget about CGI, Pearl, etc. ).

Now, what would be better?


Thanks.

[jkrohn]

Is this running on a webserver and accesible to others? Is this simply a standalone program for your own use? Do you have a search algorithm you are going to use?

Javascript is not possible unless you want to use ActiveX.
Java would be a much better option.

Jkrohn

[eagle1]

Hey jkrohn!

To answer your questions:

It will run on a Web Server.
A standalone program can be made if possible but after pondering about it
I think it would be better for the program to be run from a webpage.
No search algorithms yet. We'll start from scratch.

I also believe that Java will be the one to use and already started reading about it but I don't know if there are functions already for searching (which there probably are).

Thanks for your input.

[Iturea]

If this is an Internet Application and you let Google index these html files you can use Google API's in your web application code to pull all the information you want. This way you can let Google do all the hard work for you and all you got to do is supply the input and capture the output.

http://www.google.com/apis/

I use Google API's all the time and I can tell you that they make very complicated matters very easy. It has saved me so much time in development, and well there is no maintenance cause they do all of that.

[eagle1]

So you mean to tell me that Google has like a Search generator or something?!?
These guys are into everything!
I will look into that but I will probably try and do it myself also since
I haven't programmed in so long!