i added a search thing on the right there. you see it. yeah. that. you can search now! it works pretty well. i have to give most of the credit to mysql, with a little credit to my mad programming skillz that got this all done within about 2 hours of when i said "hey i should actually implement that instead of just having it sit there". the fun part was the testing, in which i searched for chad. hehe.
anyways, this is how it works. type in word or phrase. hit button. the search goes through the title and text of each post and matches the searched for text against those two fields. pretty simple stuff. mysql does the crazy score thing for me. this is straight from the mysql manual-
or every row in the table, MATCH() returns a relevance value, that is, a similarity measure between the search string and the text in that row in the columns named in the MATCH() list.so as you can tell.... i didn't have to do very much work at all. 2 hours was probably 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than it should have taken. i'm at work so whatever.
anyways, lemme know how you like it. more importantly, let me know if you use it!