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Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide

By : Abbas Ali
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Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide

By: Abbas Ali

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Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide
Abbas Ali
Mar, 2011 | 244 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Sphinx Search
Sphinx Search
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Setting Up Sphinx
Setting Up Sphinx
What you need to know
Different ways of performing a search
Sphinx—a full-text search engine
Installation
Time for action - installation on Linux
Time for action - installation on Windows
Time for action - installation on a Mac
Summary
2
Getting Started
Getting Started
Checking the installation
Full-text search
Time for action - normal search in MySQL
Overview of Sphinx
Time for action - Sphinx in action
Why use Sphinx for full-text searching?
Summary
3
Indexing
Indexing
What are indexes?
Index attributes
Data sources
Time for action - creating database tables for a blog
Time for action - populate the database tables
Time for action - creating the Sphinx configuration file
Time for action - adding attributes to the index
Time for action - Adding an MVA to the index
Time for action - creating index (without attributes)
Time for action - add attributes to schema
Time for action - create index with schema defined in configuration file
Summary
4
Searching
Searching
Client API implementations for Sphinx
Search using client API
Time for action - creating a basic search script
Time for action - searching with different matching modes
Time for action - searching using Boolean query syntax
Time for action - searching with extended query syntax
Filtering full-text search results
Time for action - filtering the result set
Weighting search results
Time for action - weighting search results
Sorting modes
Grouping search results
Summary
5
Feed Search
Feed Search
The application
Time for action - creating the MySQL database and tables
Time for action - setting up the feeds application
Time for action - creating a form to add feeds
Time for action - adding code to save feed
Time for action - create the index
Time for action - adding code to avoid duplicate items
Time for action - adding the delta index
Time for action - creating the search form
Time for action - adding code to perform a search query
Time for action - adding code to filter the results
Time for action - showing search form prefilled with last submitted data
Summary
6
Property Search
Property Search
The application
Time for action - creating the MySQL database and structure
Time for action - populating the database
Time for action - setting up the application
Time for action - creating the form to add property
Time for action - creating the index
Time for action - creating the simple search form
Time for action - adding code to perform full-text search
Time for action - creating the Advanced search form
Time for action - adding ranged filters
Time for action - creating the search form
Time for action - adding code to perform geo distance search
Summary
7
Sphinx Configuration
Sphinx Configuration
Sphinx configuration file
Data source configuration
Time for action - creating a configuration with advanced source options
Index configuration
Time for action - creating indexes for distributed searching
Time for action - adding distributed index configuration
Time for action - using morphology for stemming
Search daemon configuration
Indexer configuration
Summary
8
What Next?
What Next?
SphinxQL
Time for action - querying Sphinx using MySQL CLI
Use case scenarios
Popular websites using Sphinx
Summary

What you need to know

For this chapter, it is important that you know basic Linux commands (if you intend to install sphinx on a Linux machine). If you use Windows then you should have a basic idea of how to install programs in Windows.

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