display results in search engine (no MySQL)

Question

I am developing a search engine in java.It works fine but all results are displayed in one page.How can I display results in separate pages like google. If I have 100 results then the results will be displayed in say 10 pages 10 results each. I am not using MySQL. My data is stored in files.

Answer 1

So you need to take the specified page number and use that to work out which result to display first in that page.

say your URL looked like this

www.yoursite.com?search=JSP&page=3

Then, you'd extract the search term and find the results. You'd also get the requested page and use it.

firstResultNum = page * resultsPerPage
for (i=firstResultNum; i<firstResultNum+resultsPerPage; i++)
{
  displayCurSearchResult(i);
}