Chapter 2. Employee Lookup
What was the killer app that truly launched the Web? An easy-to-use but powerful search engine named Yahoo. Adding a search facility to a Web site is one of the most common server-side goals. Similarly, one of an intranet’s primary workhorses is often a special-purpose search engine: the employee lookup application. The ability to locate someone quickly and efficiently in an organization is key.
Search engines run the gamut from very straightforward to very advanced, both in features and implementation. The most basic search function—one that checks a single data source field for a word or phrase—is easy to create; you can do it in Macromedia Dreamweaver using nothing more than the simple Recordset dialog. However, any ...
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