Where can I find an off-the-shelf boolean search?

**Fudge** · 10-17-2009, 04:19 PM

This is so simple and elemental and yet I have been completely unable to find any such thing. If anyone could direct me to a boolean search that I could plug into my site I'd quite appreciate it.

Thanks.

**chrishirst** · 10-17-2009, 04:32 PM

a boolean search what, and what are you searching for

and does it need all boolean functions

AND, OR, NOT, XOR, NAND etc

**chrishirst** · 10-17-2009, 04:34 PM

and of course a few other details might be needed

database or text

serverside code that can be used and so on

**Fudge** · 10-17-2009, 04:58 PM

Well, I'd like it to be compatible with anything that does PHP based articles like a WordPress blog, but something that could also be used to just generate simple HTML results might be ok as well.

At its core, it needs to have "AND", "OR", "NOT". NAND and NOR can be duplicated with a sequence of the first ones, but of course they'd be nice to have. I need to be able to nest commands so I could do "chocolate AND ice cream" OR "gravy AND steak".

**chrishirst** · 10-17-2009, 05:26 PM

A Wordpress one may exist in the form of a MySql query builder that can be "plugged in", I can't say I've ever come across one but ....

Something to search HTML files though would have to be custom coded I would have thought.

moving this to the PHP forum because this forum is about Internet SEs rather than creating one.

**Fudge** · 10-17-2009, 05:42 PM

I found a wordpress "advanced search" module, which looks like it could be handy but probably not robust enough. But I appreciate this help.