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say i wanted to build a search engine in php...first off is it possible....secondly would the page have to have a .php extension that im wanting to test it on
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possible, yes.
.php? doesn't matter.
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@feyd=id pm you this question because im not wanting to or meaning to bump this post at all

but would you or anyone happen to know of a place online that would have a reliable tutorial on this subject....possibly step by step so i can understand what i am doing? because the book that i have has tutorials and different samples but it doesent include this subject...in addition it has alot of typoes and incomplete information as can be seen from my other posts
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Search engines are pretty advanced subjects. While PHP can make one, it's generally considered not the best to do so. It's partially due to the fairly low speed of PHP compared to other languages, but also due to it's intended use, which is serving web pages, not analysing them.

To answer your question, no I can't direct you to any tutorials. For myself, it's actually quite difficult to go through a tutorial. But if I get a technical manual or similar reference, I can go through it with little problem. .. but that's off topic.

Oh, and your post would not have been a bump. It has substance. Bumps lack substance.
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