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Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide

Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide

By : Abbas Ali
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Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide

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By: Abbas Ali
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Overview of this book

This book is a step-by-step guide for an absolute beginner. It covers everything, from installing to configuring, to get you started quickly. It has numerous code examples that the reader can try on their own and learn while doing so. It has two full-fledged applications as examples that readers can follow. This book is specifically focused on the Search feature of web applications. This book is for developers who are new to Sphinx Search. All code examples use PHP but the logic is same for any other web scripting languages as well.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Sphinx Search
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Sphinx Search
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
Acknowledgement
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Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Setting Up Sphinx
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Setting Up Sphinx
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What you need to know
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Different ways of performing a search
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Sphinx—a full-text search engine
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Installation
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Time for action - installation on Linux
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Time for action - installation on Windows
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Time for action - installation on a Mac
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Summary
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Getting Started
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Getting Started
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Checking the installation
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Full-text search
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Time for action - normal search in MySQL
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Overview of Sphinx
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Time for action - Sphinx in action
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Why use Sphinx for full-text searching?
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Summary
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Indexing
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Indexing
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What are indexes?
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Index attributes
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Data sources
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Time for action - creating database tables for a blog
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Time for action - populate the database tables
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Time for action - creating the Sphinx configuration file
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Time for action - adding attributes to the index
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Time for action - Adding an MVA to the index
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Time for action - creating index (without attributes)
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Time for action - add attributes to schema
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Time for action - create index with schema defined in configuration file
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Summary
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Searching
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Searching
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Client API implementations for Sphinx
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Search using client API
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Time for action - creating a basic search script
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Time for action - searching with different matching modes
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Time for action - searching using Boolean query syntax
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Time for action - searching with extended query syntax
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Filtering full-text search results
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Time for action - filtering the result set
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Weighting search results
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Time for action - weighting search results
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Sorting modes
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Grouping search results
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Summary
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Feed Search
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Feed Search
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The application
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Time for action - creating the MySQL database and tables
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Time for action - setting up the feeds application
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Time for action - creating a form to add feeds
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Time for action - adding code to save feed
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Time for action - create the index
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Time for action - adding code to avoid duplicate items
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Time for action - adding the delta index
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Time for action - creating the search form
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Time for action - adding code to perform a search query
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Time for action - adding code to filter the results
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Time for action - showing search form prefilled with last submitted data
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Summary
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Property Search
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Property Search
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The application
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Time for action - creating the MySQL database and structure
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Time for action - populating the database
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Time for action - setting up the application
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Time for action - creating the form to add property
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Time for action - creating the index
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Time for action - creating the simple search form
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Time for action - adding code to perform full-text search
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Time for action - creating the Advanced search form
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Time for action - adding ranged filters
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Time for action - creating the search form
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Time for action - adding code to perform geo distance search
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Sphinx Configuration
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Sphinx Configuration
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Sphinx configuration file
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Data source configuration
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Time for action - creating a configuration with advanced source options
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Index configuration
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Time for action - creating indexes for distributed searching
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Time for action - adding distributed index configuration
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Time for action - using morphology for stemming
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Search daemon configuration
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Indexer configuration
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Summary
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What Next?
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What Next?
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SphinxQL
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Time for action - querying Sphinx using MySQL CLI
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Use case scenarios
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Popular websites using Sphinx
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Summary

Chapter 3. Indexing

This chapter is all about indexes and how to create them in Sphinx. Indexes are the most important component when using Sphinx.

In this chapter we shall:

  • See what indexes are and how they help in searching. We will also learn how they are created by using Sphinx's indexer utility.

  • We will learn what data sources are and what different types are available in Sphinx.

So let's get on with it...

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