Question

I am creating a Knowledge Base web for my company on a non-internet connected network. I am not a web developer at all so I am using basic css/html code to build the web pages. I have created the necessary pages, Home, Software Issues, Network Issues, and Create Page.

The create page has a form in which anyone of our SysAdmins can deposit a problem/solution and submit it to the Knowledge Base.

I am looking for some kind of code that would allow me to place a search engine on the web pages so a SysAdmin can type in a problem and search within our Knowledge Base to locate the issue (in the event it has happened before and submitted).

This Knowledge Base also offers additional help such as how-to pages. EX: How to create an account in Windows.

The search engine would search through all pages in the Knowledge Base directory for keywords. Seems simple to me. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Try FullProof a javascript search engine library for the browser

From their website:

Fullproof is a javascript library that provides high-quality full-text search in the browser.

This specially makes sense if your webapp is designed to work offline, using the HTML5 offline feature or because your application runs on a possibly disconnected mobile device.

Features:

• Boolean and Scoring search engines available, depending on the kind of search your application needs
• Automatic HTML5 storage detection, and graceful degradation, with a configurable constraint-based capabilities system. Currently manages WebSQL, IndexedDB and Memory data storage.
• Full unicode support and normalization, diacritical marks removal, stemming and phonetical algorithms (currently available for english and french)
  Configurable and very easely extensible parsing and token normalization system
• Easy to integrate, zero external dependency, ~100k minified

Screenshot

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Note

This gives you all you want, but you need to keep updating the DB each time you put content in your KB.