Flash Search Bar

Question

Hello, I am trying to create a search bar within flash which will generate links to frames within my flash project based off of given text. I have found a flash project online which does almost exactly what I need, but it only allows for searching a single word rarther than a full term or sentence. It also gives no error message when no word match is found. I am not very good at actionscript or I would be able to midify myself. Any help would be very helpful. Here is the code given:
stop();
var testText0:String = "this is some test text one";
var testText1:String = "this is some test text two";
var testText2:String = "this is some test text three";
var testText3:String = "this is some test text four";
var textArr = new Array();
textArr[0] = _level0.testText0;
textArr[1] = _level0.testText1;
textArr[2] = _level0.testText2;
textArr[3] = _level0.testText3;
function goPage(page){
_root.gotoAndStop(page);
var keyword = new Array();
_root.search.onRelease = function(){
_root.linkText = "";
for(j = 0; j < textArr.length; j++){
_level0["count"+j] = 0;
var p:Number = j+1;
keyword = textArr[j].split(" ");
for(i = 0; i < keyword.length; i++){
if(keyword[i].charAt(keyword[i].length-1) == ","){
l = keyword[i].lastIndexOf(",")-1;
wordmatch = keyword[i].substring(0,(l+1));
}else if(keyword[i].charAt(keyword[i].length-1) == "."){
l = keyword[i].lastIndexOf(".")-1;
wordmatch = keyword[i].substring(0,(l+1));
}else if(keyword[i].charAt(keyword[i].length-1) == "?"){
l = keyword[i].lastIndexOf("?")-1;
wordmatch = keyword[i].substring(0,(l+1));
}else{
wordmatch = keyword[i];
if(_root.searchTxt.toLowerCase() == wordmatch.toLowerCase()){
_level0["count"+j]+=1;
if(_level0["count"+j] <= 1){
_root.linkText += ("<a href=\"asfunction:goPage,"+p+"\">page "+p+" contains the word <font color=\"#FF0000\"><B><I>"+wordmatch+"</I></B></font></a><br />");
The original .fla file can be dowloaded here:
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scripting/flash_si-Andrew_B-10884/index .php

Answer 1

For the error message if there is no word match, put one more else condition at the bottom of the else if chain to have it display a message saying their search was not found.  As for multiple words, I'm sure there is probably an easier way to do this but you can use if statements with the or condition.
For example, say the key words that you have within the movie are "pie", "cake" and "muffin".  You can have a statement basically saying
if searched term contains "pie" or "cake" or "muffin" then do action x y or z.
Not too sure of the syntax, but hopefully this at least gives you a little bit of direction on where to go next.