Live Search - Searchengine for your Website

The Searchengine for your Site

Live Search 2.01 Sep 11th 2011

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New since V2.01: Now thumbnails will be generated from GIFs and PNGs too

New since V2.0: Added possibility to search for images (filename, alt-tag, title-tag) with displaying their auto generated (CSS or GD) thumbnails, META -description and META -keywords are involved now, performace fix for greater websites – all updates can be found detailed further down in the changelog

New since V1.3: Added possibility to hide content from being indexed – all updates can be found detailed further down in the changelog

New since V1.21: small fix for quoting searchstrings – all updates can be found detailed further down in the changelog

New since V1.2: improved searchstring savings (for the cloud), including and excluding files and/or paths and some major fixes – all updates can be found detailed further down in the changelog

New since V1.1: some fixes and the possibility add GET -Variables – all updates can be found detailed further down in the changelog

The Search Engine for your Website.
You can use Live Search for smaller and medium websites. A database is not needed. The website will be crawled from the defined baseurl.
The links will be collected and the content cached – so future searches are faster. Already succeeded searches are stored in files too to increase search speed.
The textparts with the found searchstrings are cropped in the search results so only the part with the searchstring is displayed (like displaying the results on Google)

Various options help you to handle Live Search. A Search Word Cloud is available too.

A complete overview is available in the How it works section of the demo

Check out the Demo on envato.homac.net

Sites where Live Search is in use

http://www.homac.at (search link at the top right)

Features

• Easy to include and setup
• Should work with every smaller and middle website
• No need of any database
• Pagination function
• Caching of searchresults and content
• Include unlinked files new since 1.2
• Exclude paths and files from being searched for links new since 1.2
• Exclude paths and files from being searched for links new since 1.2
• Exclude < script > blocks new since 2.0
• Added performance switch if necessary new since 2.0
• Search for META -description new since 2.0
• Search for META -keywords new since 2.0
• Search for images new since 2.0
• Possibility to hide images from being indexed new since 2.0
• Thumbnail-Generation on the Fly new since 2.0
• ...

Requirements

• PHP 5 .x
• activated allow_url_fopen
• optional GD-Library for thumbnail Generation (CSS thumbs are possible too)

Current Version Live Search 2.01 Sep 11th 2011_

Update information are included

Updates V2.01 Sep 11th 2011

-> Added PNG and GIF support for the thumbnail generator

Updates V2.0 2011-08-30

-> < script > blocks are excluded now
-> Added possibility to search for META -description and META -keywords
-> Added possibility to search for images by filename, alt-tag or title-tag – Imagesearch can be turned on/off
-> Thumbnails of found images will be displayed and can be generated on the fly with the help of the GD-Library – can be turned on (GD-thumbs)/off (CSS-thumbs)
-> Images can be hidden by using the LSHIDE image class
-> Added performance fix for larger websites running into a timout or memory exhaustion

Updates V1.3 2010-06-07

-> added some setup error – handlers
-> Possibility to exclude complete blocks from indexing. i.e. your menues, ...
-> Added prior PHP 5 .1.2 fix for parse_url()

Updates V1.21 2010-02-21

-> added essential quoting of possible slashes in searchstings

Updates V1.2 2010-02-15 (submitted 2010-02-14)

-> Double quote and escaped characters fixing for the collected Searchwords (Cloud)
-> Possibility to exclude files and directories under the basedir
-> Possibility to include unlinked files and directories under the basedir
-> Some major bugfixes to prevent from endless loops and to make caching faster

Updates V1.1 2010-02-13

-> fixed hardcoded pagevariablename
-> fixed hardcoded searchstringvariablename
-> Added possibility add GET -Variables for pagination ($add2query)
-> Added possibility add GET -Variables for drawing searchresults ($add2query)
-> Added possibility add GET -Variables for the SearchCloud ($add2query)
-> Replace miss-used echo in the searchcloud

Official Release V1.0 2010-02-12

-> first version released

I hope you like it and vereything works fine for you

regards
mac