Q&A: I wanrt to create product search engine for my site. What do i use and how?

Question by jaw5791: I wanrt to create product search engine for my site. What do i use and how?
I have a website which i want to sell my items on, but i want a really cool search engine which clients can search product ID’s on, and product description using keywords.

Something like argos.co.uk, or other retail stores. What do they use and how do they index all the details.

Please can someone find me a tutorial or contact me with the know how!

(also what scripting do i use php, html, myql, etc?)

thankyou so much!!!

Best answer:

Answer by Sam
Most “text” search engines can provide this as long as your products are listed on a plain text html page/file. However, it sounds more like you not only want to list, but sell the items.

Most Web Host companies provide “Shopping Cart” technologies where you can input your product list into a repository for searching (mostly by product name). This depends of course on a consistent inventory of items, such as pencils for example.

If on the other hand you are selling things that are different from day to day or item to item, such as used cars or car parts, then you have something a bit more difficult… in which case, you’ll need a database (most web hosts provide MySQL or Postgres)… this will take a lot more work from a skilled programmer.

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