How Do I get my Search Bar to search within my website?

Question

I have a search bar on my unpublished website, and I was hoping that there's some kind of coding that could make it possible to search something that will draw a conclusion from my own website. (As of now, using the search bar takes me to google)

<form id="tfnewsearch" method="get" action="http://www.google.com">
    <input type="text" class="tftextinput" name="q" size="21" maxlength="120"><input type="submit" value="search" class="tfbutton">
</form>
<div class="tfclear"></div>

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You have added the link of google.com that is why you are redirecting to google.

For Your own search engine, you have to make a form for your site and some database queries which will select some data from your database and display the result. replace the google.com with your form url in action tag.

Answer 2

It does really depend on how your site is built, and whether it's fully accessible to public.

For example, if it's completely public, you can still use google to search your site by using the Google Custom Search API.

Otherwise, there's no magic potion. You will likely have to write some code to index your documents etc. Many sites achieve this by storing the information in a database and creating a full text index of the site, and then querying the database. But this will require more than just CSS and HTML.