RE: [flexcoders] flex and third party search engines[john dowdell.. anybody...]

[Matt Chotin]

Nithya,   Your example is generally more about backend logic to find your data rather than searching incorporated with Flex.  If your products are stored in a database, you’ll need to use the database’s query capabilities to find the right products.  You kept asking about mondosearch so maybe you’re already using that to search all of the data?  In this case they have a web service API that you would use: http://www.mondosoft.com/webservicesearchkit.asp.  You would install the webservice kit somewhere, then connect to it with your Flex app.  There are plenty of docs and examples for using web services from Flex.  The big thing here is really this is not a Flex issue, it’s how you get your data into your Flex app.  And the answer is through whatever mechanisms your search engine provides.   Matt   From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nithya R Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:13 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] flex and third party search engines[john dowdell.. anybody...]   hai john     say i have a flex site for online shopping... i need a search feature for the products... say i type the product name and it should fetch me the details about the product and all the links associated to it... so for this i need a search engine to be integrated with the flex site... how can i do this? John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nithya R wrote: > i would like to know if flex supports any third party search engines like mondosearch etc... .net supports mondosearch , likewise what are the search engines that flex supports... When you say "support", what do you mean? I think Matt may have read this as "is static text in a Flex SWF read by search engines", and results are mixed here... some engines definitely read it, as you can prove at Google by searching on "checkout filetype:swf" or similar terms. But if you're looking to offer local search within your own work, then a lot depends on whether your text is stored in the SWF or in a database or web service, what type of interface you'd like to display results in, etc. Or if you're looking to issue a standard web search from within a Flex presentation, then that can be as easy as constructing an URL. When you say "support", what do you mean? If you'd like to offer a search form within your presentation, then what would you like it to search...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.