javascript search

[gonky]

I may be on completely the wrong track here, but...

Is it possible to search a site using just javascript?
What I need is the user been able to search by choosing options from from a number of dropdowns and the search been made within these parameters.

any pointers?

thanks

[ajkimoto]

gonky,

I suppose that this is technically possible though very inefficient, especially if the site contains more than a few pages. A better solution would be to use some flavor of back-end code to handle this.

ajkimoto

[gonky]

thanks for the reply,
Any ideas of which flavour, i'm a bit out of my depth with the backend?

[ajkimoto]

gonky,

Well, I do most of my back-end work in a pretty obscure language (AFP) so I hesitate to recommend it. Many people seem to be using PHP these days, though.

ajkimoto

[luckydude]

yeah, I would vote for PHP too. If you know JavaScript, it's kind of easier to learn PHP and it's a great language.

Luckydude