Question

I am trying to implement a search on my website. Getting started, I have some beginner questions.

1. If I use a pagination script, does those scripts find all results when search is triggered and simply display the results as pages?
2. Is it better to keep the keywords in a session variable and do search, bring say 10 results everytime user hits “More results” Button?

Thanks for any insights.

Answer 1

1. Unless you cache the results the first time the search is run, the “paged” results generally re-run the search query, then throw away the rows that aren’t being displayed
2. There’s no point in using a session variable to store the keywords, unless you don’t plan on displaying the search box alongside the results (e.g. as Google search result pages do).