Search Feature on HTML site w/PHP capability

[flycast]

I have been asked to add a search feature to an existing site written by somebody else. The site is all plain html. The customer wants to search by keyword and by employee name. I understand how to do this with PHP/MYSQL. The site has PHP capability but the site is currently not MYSQL.

Can somebody please give me some pointers on The best way to do a search on a bunch of html source files?

Or better yet, is there a prewritten code out there for this purpose that somebody knows about?

Thanks

[frank999]

I have a standard perl script that searches flat HTML pages (it's at least 5 years old, there's dozens of them around). Searching by Keyword is easy and most scripts will allow you to set Boolean AND so you could include a droplist of employee names which forces the website visitor to choose an employee and then insert a keyword in order to complete the search.

At least it sounds simple enough... ;)

[coopster]

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