Flash Search Engine idea

[kikon]

Hey guys,

I really want to create something that can be used as a tiny search engine for a site that can be fully controlled, unlike the google search which you have no control over. Also, if for some reason you're trying to create a personal resource page or whatever on your machine, it would also work on your local machine without having xxamp or something like that installed in order to work with mysql or php. I think there's potential here.

With a little bit of work, and some modifications to load the info from an xml file, this could be very handy. Feel free to modify it, and if you come up with some cool additions to it, feel free to post back.

[kikon]

Please don't download the source files from the previous post, there's something wrong with them. I've since fixed the problem and here are the working files:


http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=databaseideamxxz6.swf

[zellers]

This is a good idea, however it will take a lot of time to get something like this goind good. A lot of Data entry may be ahead....

[bombsledder]

for one thing you wont touch google, yahoo, ask, or pretty much any other searching engine like that, another thing is google is in fact controllable have you ever gone to advanced search. another thing i can think of too is that is the wrong forum this is to post your source/examples not your proposals

[kikon]

I did post the source files and a working example. I wasn't trying to create a rival for google. This would be a simple tiny search engine that you could add to your site, deliver results in your own layout, and you get to specify what the keywords are, and how many there are. The next step is to display more than one result. For example, if two sections share the same keyword, then both sections should be executed. Makes sense right? Look at my code, it's pretty self explanatory and I commented on the actionscript. I need to clean it up still and shorten it as the functions share many of the same code which can obviously be condensed into something neater.