Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide

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Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide

By : Abbas Ali

Book Image

Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide

By: Abbas Ali

Overview of this book

Sphinx Search

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

Acknowledgement

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Setting Up Sphinx

Setting Up Sphinx

What you need to know

Different ways of performing a search

Sphinx—a full-text search engine

Time for action - installation on Linux

Time for action - installation on Windows

Time for action - installation on a Mac

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?

Indexing

What are indexes?

Index attributes

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

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

Grouping search results

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

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

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

What Next?

Time for action - querying Sphinx using MySQL CLI

Use case scenarios

Popular websites using Sphinx

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Summary

In this chapter:

We saw the different ways to perform search
We got to know about Sphinx and how it helps in performing searches
We took a look at some of Sphinx's features and its brief history
We learned how to install Sphinx on different operating systems

By now you should have installed Sphinx on your system and laid the foundation for Chapter 2, Getting Started, where we will get started with Sphinx and some basic usage.