I went with google search. The search results are black font on a white background. I don't know what color the links are yet, because the site hasn't been indexed.
I don't think it's customizable, which fully means it was a lousy choice. If it's not I'm going to advise my customer to cancel her account and I'll use swish-e. Michele -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Crawford Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 6:36 PM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Search function Michelle, check the source for this site, http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/crawling-through-html-for ms.html They have the google search and doubt they pay for it, it's a free method I believe On Sep 19, 2008, at 6:30 PM, (Margaret) Michele Waldman wrote: > Googles annual pricing for using their function is: > > Number of web pages Search Query Limit (annual) Pricing (annual) > Up to 5,000 250,000 $100 > 5,001 - 50,000 250,000 $500 > 50,001 - 100,000 500,000 $850 > 100,001 - 300,000 500,000 $2,250 >> 300,000 > 500,000 Contact sales. > > Is everyone in agreement? > > I'm guessing I'm not going to cheaply or quickly write something as > sophisticated. > > Michele > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ] On > Behalf Of Joseph Crawford > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 6:24 PM > To: NYPHP Talk > Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Search function > > John, > > From my understanding this was not something she wanted for site > users, I thought she was searching for a string. > > If you are going to deploy this to users then you don't want to use > either method we spoke about and use John's suggestion and use Google > Site Search > > On Sep 19, 2008, at 6:17 PM, John Campbell wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:07 PM, (Margaret) Michele Waldman >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Would instr get_file_contents be too slow? >> >> This is a really bad idea in general... Is there a reason Google's >> site search won't work? >> >> If you do something like exec(grep), make sure you know how to escape >> everything properly. It is possible someone could wreck the site >> with >> a specially crafted query. >> >> -John C. >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >> http://www.nyphpcon.com >> >> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
