Integrating Sphider search engine in to website

I have Sphider search engine up and running on my site but I am having two problems.

I am not clear on how to set up the indexing for the results to properly show up.
I am trying to take the search.php file and
```
include ('sphider/search.php');
```
in the dashboard.php file which is located in the root dir of my site.

Sphider is at

root/sphider/search.php

but when I include it nothing shows up. If anyone has any insight on the issues I am having I would appreciate it. Yes I have found some online documentation here and there but nothing that clears this up for me.

because sphider is not installed in root directory You might need to update some of your path(s) within search.php eg. add another '../sphider/' in the path of everything so it can reference required php files etc. this way can get very complicated and is probably not worth it.

For my site I created a simple flash search box that uses URL request of 'search.php?query=' + KeywordVar + '&start=1&search=1&results=10' Works great.

AS3 Example:

var KeywordVar = SearchTextBox01.text;
var URLpart1 = 'http://www.yourwebsite.com/search.php?query=';
var URLpart2 = '&start=1&search=1&results=10';
var MySearchLink = URLpart1 + KeywordVar + URLpart2;

MySearchButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,MySearchFunction);


function MySearchFunction(e:Event){navigateToURL(new URLRequest(MySearchLink)); }

In your case I would just use a simple form that uses 'get' to the search 'Search.php' file and then include your header & footer in the Sphider's header & footer Templates. or create your own header & footers to match your requirements.

HTML Example:

<div> 
  <form action="sphider/search.php" method="get"> 
    <input type="text" name="query" id="query" size="40" value=""> 
    <input type="submit" value="Search"> 
    <input type="hidden" name="search" value="1"> 
  </form> 
</div>