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Adding a Search page to your site with ASP

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The associated download includes two files you can place on your site to add a search functionality to your site:
  1. Search.html is a simple web form asking for the search criteria.  Upon submission, the search request is sent to search.asp.
  2. Search.asp contains code which performs the following:
    • Iterate through each file of a particular directory (we'll use the root web directory for this example, although you can change it quite easily)
    • Open each file and read its contents into a string variable
    • Search that string variable for any occurrences of the text string entered by the user in the form in Search.asp
    • If there is a match, display a link to that particular file

You can modify these in your html editor of choice in order to change the formatting, look, and feel to match your overall site.

 

 
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search.zip : Search page in ASP