1. Creating a search engine from Scratch in PHP &
MySQL
Learn how to build a dynamic multi-part data driven search engine in PHP
from absolutely scratch for your website.
enrolled
This is a unique project built in using PHP & MySQL from scratch, Not only on Udemy,
but I couldn't find a course like this on the whole internet, therefore, I took this
responsibility and to create something different and awesome. Means, building a
custom search engine in PHP.
About this course
You'll learn completely how to create a search engine for your own website or for any
website on the web using PHP & MySQL, moreover, you can take this idea to create a
global search engine for displaying results to the users from the web.
What kind of materials are included in this course?
This course contains 3 sections with 12 videos and 2+ hours of video content. and will
also include the source files & presentation for downloading.
How Long will the course take to complete?
This course will take your 2 hours for understanding and building your own search
engine within hours in PHP & MySQL.
How the Course is structured?
There will be a presentation in the starting of this course, in which we'll learn what we
are going to do, and after that, step by step tutorials to learn creating a search engine in
PHP.
Why take this course?
You should take this course because it will help you creating a search engine in PHP for
your own website, your client's website or simply you want to enhance your PHP &
MySQL skills and take them to the next level.
Category: Technology
 What are the requirements?
o A web browser (Chrome or Firefox)
o A text editor (Notepad++ or Dreamweaver)
o A web server or local server (XAMPP or Wamp)

2.  What am I going to get from this course?
o Over 12 lectures and 2.5 hours of content!
o After taking this course, you'll be able to create a custom search engine in PHP
o In this course, you'll learn creating a search engine in PHP & MySQL from scratch
o You'll take a deep idea that how you can display the results upon users query from the database
 What is the target audience?
o Those who have a basic understanding of HTML & PHP will get full advantage of this course
o However, no extra knowledge is required to learn this course completely, if you are beginner then
you most welcome to learn this
CURRICULUM
 SECTION 1:
INTRODUCTION - AND CREATING NECESSARY FOLDERS & DISPLAY PAGE
 1
What we are going to Learn in this course?
In this first video of first section, we'll know about the content of the course.
05:52
Preview
 2
Creating the necessary folders & display page
In the second video of first section we'll create the necessary folders & the display page called
"search.html" for the project, so after that we can go ahead to start the actual PHP work for this
project.
13:22
 3
Creating the Database & Table for the project

3. In this third video of first section, we'll learn how to create the MySQL database and the table for this
project.
12:34
 4
Creating the insert_site.php page for inserting data into the database
In the fourth video of this section, we'll learn how to create the insert_site.php page for this project,
by which we can insert the site details into the table inside a MySQL database called "sites".
14:13
 5
Inserting website/page details into the database
In this fifth & last video this section, we'll learn how to insert the data into the table inside MySQL
database, we'll be inserting website details i.e keywords, title, link, image and description, which we
can later on display on the result page.
31:51
 6
Questions for Section one
3 questions
 SECTION 2:
DISPLAYING THE RESULTS TO THE USERS IN THE BROWSER
 7
Creating the result.php page for displaying the results
In first video of section two, we'll create the the result page which will be displaying the relevant
results from the MySQL database upon the user query.
11:22
 8

4. Creating the PHP Script for Displaying the Results
In this second video of 2nd section, we'll create the PHP script for displaying the results upon the
user query, we'll retrieve the data from the MySQL database inside the sites table.
19:15
 9
Displaying the results to the users in the browser
in 3rd video of 2nd section, we'll be able to display the results to the users when they search any
keyword using our search box. And this is done by a PHP script, the data is coming from the Table
"Sites" inside "Search" database.
12:59
 10
Validating the PHP search engine Script
In the 4th video of section 2, we'll be validating the search engine script using PHP, because we
don't want to run extra executions PHP scripts.
06:08
 11
Understanding the search engine script in PHP
In this last video of section two, we'll try to understand that how search engines in PHP work? and
how they perform the task upon the given query by the users.
08:27
 12
Questions for section two!
5 questions
 SECTION 3:
THE SUMMARY & IMPORTANT NOTES

5.  13
How to use this search engine for a website
In this video, we'll learn how to can we use this search engine for a website, this is the second last
video of the course and is included in the 3rd section of this course. Kindly find the full source code
in the last video of this course.
03:37
 14
The Summary of the Course & Important Notes
This is the final summary of this course and also some important notes, you can also download the
entire source code and folders which were used in this project. And your questions are welcomed.
Thanks for taking this course.
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REVIEWS
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