jssearch

Introducing jssearch: offering plug-and-play client-side functionality for your websites...

Use the search box above - if your browser displays it - to explore the King James Bible!

The jssearch PHP indexer and Javascript search engine has several advantages:

• Ideal for making small-to-medium sized websites 'sticky' and easy to explore.
• Very fast. Searches are almost instantaneous.
• Results are logically ordered by relevance.
• Easily integrates with the 'look' of your existing site with just a couple of lines of HTML.
• Choice of search link or box.
• Supports accented characters, e.g., searching for 'café' finds 'cafe', and vice versa.
• Once indexed, the search engine works offline - on a CDROM for example.
• Fails gracefully - unsupported browsers simply don't display the search link/box.
• This software is free, open source.

...and a few disadvantages:

• Data download time for modem users - not a problem with broadband - and this one-time delay can be mitigated through Apache's content negotiation.
• Indexer is NOT a spider (following links in pages). Rather, the indexer simply scans files directly from the file system - possibly revealing sensitive data unless care is taken to 'hide' it from the indexer - via simple configuration directives.

Web developers: to use jssearch.php on your site view page source.