how to add search function to site

[Tai]

Searching and searching and found no joy. I want to add a simple search bar to my site that does an internal global site search, all I can find on google is how to add a google search to your site (what a surprise)

Can anyone link me or tell me how?

 

[Gezza]

You using wordpress ? if so just search for a plugin.

 

[Tai]

not anymore, this is for html

 

[Gezza]

You could do google custom search and just add your site to the list. Just found this on my site, don't know if any use to you.

search form

<?php $search_text = empty($_GET['s']) ? "Search" : get_search_query(); ?> 
<div id="search">
    <form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/"> 
        <input type="text" value="<?php echo $search_text; ?>" 
            name="s" id="s"  onblur="if (this.value == '')  {this.value = '<?php echo $search_text; ?>';}"  
            onfocus="if (this.value == '<?php echo $search_text; ?>') {this.value = '';}" />
        <input type="image" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/search.gif" style="border:0; vertical-align: top;" /> 
    </form>
</div>

search results

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="outer" id="contentwrap">
    <?php get_sidebars('left'); ?>
	<div class="postcont">
		<div id="content">

	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		<h2 class="pagetitle">Search Results</h2>

		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

			<div <?php post_class('post') ?>>
                <h2 class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<div class="postdate"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/date.png" /> <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/user.png" /> <?php the_author() ?> <?php if (current_user_can('edit_post', $post->ID)) { ?> <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/edit.png" /> <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ''); } ?></div>
				<div class="entry">
                    <?php if ( function_exists("has_post_thumbnail") && has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail(array(200,160), array("class" => "alignleft post_thumbnail")); } ?>
					<?php the_excerpt() ?>
                    <div class="readmorecontent">
						<a class="readmore" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">Read More »</a>
					</div>
				</div>
        	</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

		<div class="navigation">
			<?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { wp_pagenavi(); } else { ?>
			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('« Older Entries') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries »') ?></div>
			<?php } ?>
		</div>

	<?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="pagetitle">No posts found. Try a different search?</h2>
		<?php get_search_form(); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

		</div>
	</div>

<?php get_sidebars('right'); ?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

 

[GOMEEE]

http://www.google.com/cse/

is probably your best bet

 

[Tai]

Thanks I'll check it out.

@Gezza im not really skilled enough to understand that lol

---------- Post added 20-08-2011 at 03:59 PM ---------- Previous post was 07-08-2011 at 01:09 PM ----------

http://www.google.com/cse/

is probably your best bet

tried that, no good. I don't want google ads all over my site when someone searches. is there no simple-ish way to add a proper "home made" search function to my site?

 

[mapadale]

http://www.scriptarchive.com/search.html

However with search functions, you will need to learn to code. Cause you can't expect to produce a website from scratch without learning, unless you've used a pre programed system.

 

[Tai]

http://www.scriptarchive.com/search.html

However with search functions, you will need to learn to code. Cause you can't expect to produce a website from scratch without learning, unless you've used a pre programed system.

You've seen my other thread so I can only assume you already know that I'm learning to code. In fact I've already built most of my site.

Anyway that search is no good either, as it only searches file names, not content within the files. Lame. Who knew? I should've just used wordpress but I wanted to design the theme from scratch and figured it would be easier to create a template for a standard html website than it would be for something like wordpress.