In this chapter:
We saw what indexes are and how they are used in Sphinx
We learned about fields and the different kind of attributes that go into the index
We took a look at how to create the Sphinx configuration file
We learned about SQL data source and xmlpipe data source
We learned how to use different kind of attributes so that we can filter our search results
In the next chapter we will see how to use the Sphinx API to search from within your application. We will use the same index used in this chapter and fire queries from our PHP application to get the results.