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Creating A Step-by-step Search Page for Your Database Driven Site

This tutorial is part of a larger discussion on creating search forms for your FrontPage Database website. Click here to read the full tutorial.

The following search form uses the CONTAINS keyword. It will search for any Company whose name contains the string entered. It does not use keywords.

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Ana Trujillo Emparedados y helados

Antonio Moreno Taquería

Around the Horn

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By its very nature, using a search form created with the CONTAINS operator will find every record in your database. This is due to the fact that your search form will begin with the value "" and every record contains some value. For this reason, if you have a large database, use Step 5 of the DRW to limit the number of records to a reasonable amount.