Search Functionality in site

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Hello,

I am a noob web designer and need some assistance with website search. The website is DYNA Home Page

I do NOT want to use the google search to do this search (although I might use it for the second part of the site search). What I am interested is to be able to create a search funtion that breaks down the results into 2 categories. First category is to just output results by product and the links always have to point to the products main page (not their data sheet or other links that will be developed inside the product page such as videos, safety sheets, etc). The second section should output results similar to that that google does where it is unrestircted and gives a summary paragraph so people can determine if the search results are relevant to them or not. This has to break down into 2 columns on the page. Please assist in getting this done. What do I need to do and where do I need to go with this?

Thank you,
Eddie

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Hey Eddie,
This is no simple feat to accomplish, you would need to use some type of server side script (php, asp, ect.) to after the form is submitted evaluate and compare the results with a database that contains your site, which the server side script would then compare with whatever the user inputted into the search bar, and then get those files and filter them, as well as format them into the your 2 section format which would actually probably require the server side program to do 2 searches, one for each section, in order to better evaluate the search results. Well like i said before this difficult and i would recommend you learn a server side language in depth before attempting this.

Hope this helps,
Maxdream01

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Another avenue is moving to a CMS like wordpress. Searches are easily executed with them and they are very handy.