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Published inMar 2011
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Abbas Ali
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Abbas Ali

Abbas Ali has over 15 years of experience in Web Development and is a Zend Certified PHP 5 Engineer. A Mechanical Engineer by education, Abbas turned to software development just after finishing his engineering degree. He is a member of the core development team for the Coppermine Photo Gallery, an open source project which is one of the most popular photo gallery applications in the world. Fascinated with both machines and knowledge, Abbas is always learning new programming techniques and technologies. Amongst various technologies, some of his favorites are Laravel, VueJS, and Sphinx. He got acquainted with Sphinx in 2009 and has been using it in most of his commercial projects ever since. He loves open source and believes in contributing back to the community. Abbas is married to Tasneem and has two daughters, Munira and Zahra. He has lived in Nagpur (India) all his life and is in no rush to move to any other city in the world. In his free time he loves to watch movies and television. He is also an amateur photographer and cricketer. Abbas founded Ranium Systems, a web and mobile development company in 2012 and is currently working as its Chief Executive Officer. The company specializes in development of enterprise level, high performance and scalable web and mobile applications
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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.

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Author (1)

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Abbas Ali

Abbas Ali has over 15 years of experience in Web Development and is a Zend Certified PHP 5 Engineer. A Mechanical Engineer by education, Abbas turned to software development just after finishing his engineering degree. He is a member of the core development team for the Coppermine Photo Gallery, an open source project which is one of the most popular photo gallery applications in the world. Fascinated with both machines and knowledge, Abbas is always learning new programming techniques and technologies. Amongst various technologies, some of his favorites are Laravel, VueJS, and Sphinx. He got acquainted with Sphinx in 2009 and has been using it in most of his commercial projects ever since. He loves open source and believes in contributing back to the community. Abbas is married to Tasneem and has two daughters, Munira and Zahra. He has lived in Nagpur (India) all his life and is in no rush to move to any other city in the world. In his free time he loves to watch movies and television. He is also an amateur photographer and cricketer. Abbas founded Ranium Systems, a web and mobile development company in 2012 and is currently working as its Chief Executive Officer. The company specializes in development of enterprise level, high performance and scalable web and mobile applications
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