No matter what version you choose you will get an archive with three folders: "Manual", "ASP", and "PHP".
"Manual" folder contains just a file called "manual.html" that has all the details regarding this searching engine.
"ASP" folder contains the files to use if you have a web hosting on a MS Windows platform.
This folder contains three files in "Free Version" and "Personal Version". These files are search.asp, header.inc and footer.inc.
"Professional Engine" or "Enterprise Engine" contain besides the above mentioned another folder "Search Engine Module".
"PHP" folder contains the files to use if you have a web hosting on a platform different from MS Windows, by example Linux/Unix.
This folder contains three files in "Free Version" and "Personal Version". These files are search.asp, header.inc and footer.inc. Professional Engine" or
"Enterprise Engine" contain besides these three files, another folder called "SearchEngineModule".
No matter what version you choose Falcon’s Smart Search Engine installation follows four steps:
Hosting Type determination
The first step is hosting type determination. To find this you have to ask the web hosting company what platform they use. If you have a hosting account on
a MS Windows platform, you will use the files from "ASP" folder. If you have a platform different from MS Windows, you will use the files from "PHP" folder.
Uploading search engine web pages
The second step refers to the files loading from ASP and PHP folder in your web site root folder. We remind you that you have to upload only the files from one of
ASP or PHP folders in your web site root folder and not files from both folders. By example, if you have a web hosting account on a Linux platform you’ll upload
just the files from "PHP" folder in your web site root folder. You have to pay attention to upload "PHP" folder content in the root folder and not directly "PHP" folder.
This means that you have to have search.asp (search.asp for a web hosting on a MS Windows platform) in your root folder.
Searching Page Link to web sites pages
The third step refers to searching page link to the rest of your web site pages. This link can be done in two ways. Either each web site page will have a link to
searching page, either it will have a field where to type the words you are looking for.
To have a link to searching page you have to introduce the following text on each web site page:
<a href="/search.asp">Search</a> for a MS Windows platform web hosting account.
or
<a href="/search.asp">Search</a>
for a Linux/Unix platform web hosting account
To have a field where to type the words you are looking for you’ll introduce the following text:
<form action="/search.asp">
Search: <input type="text" name="txtSearch">
</form>
for a MS Windows platform web hosting account.
or
<form action="/search.asp">
Search: <input type="text" name="txtSearch">
</form>
for a web hosting account on Linux/Unix platform
Search page layout modification
As soon as you have finished the three steps, your site will continue a new web page (search.asp or search.asp). Click
here to preview the default search page that would be added to your web site. If you want this page to have the same layout as the rest of your web site you have to introduce html syntax and your graphics elements in header.inc and footer.inc files. So, header.inc file will contain html syntax and graphics elements from the top and left side of your web site and footer.inc will contain html syntax and graphics elements from the right side and bottom of web pages.
As an observation, we have to define two styles in header.inc file:
a.SearchTitle - will define search page title link aspect
.SearchContent - will define search page text aspect
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