Adding Search functionality to site

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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Hey!

Just wondering if there is a way to add search functionality to a site that searches not just database content but what you might call static pages on a simple site. Or am I better off just using Google Custom Search on my site?

Cheers!

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for static, if you mean something that is hard coded in a file, so you must search in your specifics pages(files) and return the result.

google is good also but i dont like to use it for search purpose in my own website.

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Ahh k. Does Yii2 actually help with that process of searching through the files and building up the result? If not, I think I will pay for the Google Custom Search, it will be adequate for my purposes.

Thanks for response!

4

i dont think, but maybe something like beforeAction can help you to check and go through some specific actions and return the result if you have a search parameter …

but in a huge project, this method may annoy you