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Oh man, do people want this! I get so many letters asking for a search engine that will search just the user's site. Well, here ya go. This will search whatever directory you want, list the results, and even recognize if any results were found or not. The script is fairly robust, checking not only the title and file, but also the full file text. I'm giving you a fairly bare-bones results page. You can gussy it up all you want. I'm interested in the script more than its appearance here.

How about we have a look-see, huh? This script is set up to search the directory that contains all of the PERL primers. If you want to be sure to get some results, search "perl" or "Joe". If you want to be sure to not get results, try searching "zorkbabble". I don't think that appears.

See "Search It!" in Action

The HTML and PERL Code

Passwords are a pain in the bazock. Unless you can configure a server to protect an entire page, you have to go with some kind of JavaScript that's pretty easy to get past. Plus - once you do get past it, the password is no longer valid because you can just zip right to the page. Yes, I know you can put the password on every page, but how dull will that be, putting in a password every time? ...

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