search engine

[hansan]

hey Beverleyh, it's working nicely for me also.
but there are 3 types of categorizes named as JavaScript, RSS & XML. they all are giving the search option.
but what are the difference of these 3 ?

[Beverleyh]

Presumably they are just different methods of using the search engine.

I only ever used the stuff in the "Javascript" folder, and never played with the others, and now the website is gone so I cant give a better answer, Sorry

I'm just pleased that I copied and pasted the tutorial aspect of their old website into the Word doc so I (we) can refer back to it now. Thank heavens for small mercies!

[Beverleyh]

I've just had another look and the XML, RSS and Javascript folder just appear to be reference to the different files that store the search arrays - each uses a slightly different method of storing the data.

Use what you feel most comfortable with - the Javascript one was the one that originally felt most "familiar" to me so that's the one I remember (I'd never used RSS or XML when I stumbled on the script). It was also (to me) the one that translated the easiest into the Excel spreadsheet due to the horizontal array layout. Of course, you can set up the others that way in Excel too but when you need to use something quickly, you just look for the most obvious patterns and work with that. I used to be a number-cruncher, working with statistical data and contract prices, so Excel was just a tool I used to achieve a neater layout than trying to manage the text file alone.

Hope that helped.