# Help creating search and results function for my site. Please help!

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [January 7, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-creating-search-and-results-function-for-my-site-please-help/330352 "2013-01-07T18:04:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-creating-search-and-results-function-for-my-site-please-help/330352/1 "2013-01-07T18:04:58Z")

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Hi guys,

I’m making an eCommerce/PayPal website for some products I’m selling. The website is currently built with PHP and HTML.

I want to add a search box so people can search for what the specifically want - then the results page will display a list of the products with links to the products’ individual pages.

From what I understand this will almost certainly need to be database driven. My only problem is that I barely know where to start.

I’ve created a database on my host and have created dummy pages of how I want everything to look.

Each product will need 3-5 search terms attached to them.

Can someone please tell me where to begin and how difficult what I want to achieve will be?

Thank you and I hope to hear from you.

SM