I hope the earlier chapters got you warmed up and laid a solid foundation so that you can add a rock solid, fast, and accurate search engine to your applications.
In this chapter we will create our first functional application, which will use the Sphinx search engine as the backend to service search queries. We will start from scratch and build the complete application in PHP.
In this chapter we shall:
Create a form to add feed title and its URL
Create a Sphinx configuration file with xmlpipe2 data source
Create a PHP script to fetch the feed items and output the XML to the Sphinx indexer
Create a search form to input query and display the search results
So let's get on with it...