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Anybody know how to make a small search engine for a website?

AceDawg45 (429)
So, I am working on a school website, and am making a thing for the library where you can search for books and their availability. Well, how would I do that exactly? Javascript I am assuming? If anybody could help I would appreciate it.
ResidentBiscuit (4459)
Sounds like there should be a database you can query. So, PHP I would imagine.
AceDawg45 (429)
Ugh. The last thing I wanted to learn. Aw well, I can add that feature later. Much later.
NoXzema (699)
You can use anything you want really via CGI or some mechanism for server-side execution. At least, anything that can query a local database (which is a lot I would imagine).

Javascript is client side so it's probably not the best choice but you probably could if the database allowed remote querying (often not the case for security reasons).
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closed account (EwCjE3v7)
Well you will need a list of the books available. And if you are using PHP there are some PHP forums out there that can help
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MatthewRock (481)
You could even make it in Common Lisp ;)
Stormboy (346)
You can make it in the following languages (AFAIK): Python, Ruby, Perl and PHP (among the common ones). There should be a MySQL or some other database of books and you should create the search interface using the language of your choice. In the back-end, the script will search the database for the books.
NoXzema (699)
Using CGI, you can use C and C++. Don't use C or C++ though. Use something that's easier to maintain and easier to read.
BHX (3450)
Listen to NoXzema, doing CGI with C++ is just ugly IMO.
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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
 
int main ()
{
    
   cout << "Content-type:text/html\r\n\r\n";
   cout << "<html>\n";
   cout << "<head>\n";
   cout << "<title>Hello World - First CGI Program</title>\n";
   cout << "</head>\n";
   cout << "<body>\n";
   cout << "<h2>Hello World! This is my first CGI program</h2>\n";
   cout << "</body>\n";
   cout << "</html>\n";
   
   return 0;
}

[EDIT] Mismatched tags.
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LB (13399)
AceDawg45 (429)
Thanks everyone. I didn't expect to get this many answers overnight... but still good. Anyway, I will probably learn some PHP for this. Doesn't seem like it will be easy though.
rapidcoder (1010)
Use a dedicated framework for it. E.g. Solr (for a small library) or Elastic Search (for a big library).



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