Quick Start Tutorial:

This tutorial will show you how to add a search engine to your website in four steps. This is a brief tour of how to use Search Engine Composer.

Basically, there are four steps to make a search engine for your website. Firstly, index the pages of your website, secondly, setup the options of the search engine, then build and generate the search engine files, lastly, upload the search engine files to your web server, and then the search engine for your website is ready to do.

  Index your web site:

Search Engine Composer supports two kinds of indexing: online indexing and offline local computer indexing.

Clicking the "Index" window, in the "Index" dialog, entering the website address, and click "Index Now!".  Search Engine Composer will start scanning through all the pages of your website, and list all indexed files in the main window.

By choosing the option "Add additional websites to index", you can index multiple web sites or web folders at the same time, thus give you a  unique search portal for multi web sites.

  Select the type of search engine scripts, and set up search engine options.

Search Engine Composer supports three kinds of scripts: JavaScript,  PHP and ASP. JavaScript is suitable for CD/DVD offline search or small website less than 500 pages.  ASP and PHP are suitable for large websites, but your website need to support the corresponding scripts.

PHP search engine supports complete search reports, including top 50 keyword report, 50 recently performed searches report, and searches activity report.

Build search engine files.

Clicking the"Build" button, Search Engine Composer will start generating search files for your web site, and save the generated search engine files to the specified directory.

After building, the software will generate below files:

• search.html/php/asp - Search query page, you can edit this file to customize the search box, or you can copy the search box code to other web page to add a search box there.
• searchresult.html/php/asp - Search result page, you can edit this file to customize the search result page.
• searchfunc.js/php/asp - Search function scripts, do not modify it.
• searchdb.js/php/asp - Search engine database file, do not modify it.
• searchindex.js/php/asp - Search engine keyword database file, do not modify it.

The extension of the generated file name varies according to the selected type of search engine scripts.

For PHP search engine, If you have selected php search engine report, the software will generate two other files:

• report.php - Search reports page
• search.log - Search log file

Upload search engine files to your server.

Once the search engine files are generated, you can upload them to your website via FTP. Alternatively, you can copy or move them to a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or local Intranet server.

Search Engine Composer integrates a FTP client, you may use this built-in FTP or your own FTP client software to upload the files to your web server.

To use the built-in FTP client, click the button .

Finished! Your website search engine is ready to go.

Use the web browser to view the online search page, it maybe http://www.yoursite.com/yourfolder/search.html , The values of yoursite and yourfolder vary according to your own domain name and configuration.

Now you will find your website search engine, ready to run!