Flash based site w/ search engine...

Can someone tell me if it is possible to incorporate a search engine with a flash based site.

I have thumbnailed inventory on my site which I would love to have searchable.

I am very new to backend but could someone tell me if this is possible and it would be a great help if someone could steer me to some resources to get me on the right track.

Thanks

Yes, it is possible, I'm working on a glossary right now that is backend driven, and it has full search & advanced search.
What you need is a search class wich you have to integrate, I think http://www.phpclasses.org have some, you can also go to http://www.freshmeat.net and have a search there for php search class. Also: go to http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP if you want some PHP tutorials that are real good. (devshed is really good on that)

You can also make your own search class / function, but that takes a bit more knowledge of backend scripting.

I'm having a input field where the user can input a search string, send this to a PHP script, parse it and come up with results from a MySQL table, then send back term0, term1 -> term10, (or how many resultsets I get from the search), I also send "result_number" so that I know how many search results the search came up with. I also send back "from" to indicate where in the table I'm picking up results from, so the user can click a "next 10 records" button to get the next 10 results.

That's the way I have it, but I think you'll need a bit of understanding of SQL and how to parse a string before you can implement a good search function.

Good luck!