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Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide

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Product type Book

Published in Mar 2011

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ISBN-13 9781849512541

Pages 244 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Enterprise Search

Author (1):

Abbas Ali

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Sphinx Search

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

1. www.PacktPub.com

2. Preface

1. Setting Up Sphinx

2. Getting Started

3. Indexing

4. Searching

5. Feed Search

6. Property Search

7. Sphinx Configuration

8. What Next?

Data sources

The source of the data that is to be indexed is called a data source. The data can generally come from very different sources such as SQL databases, plain text files, HTML documents, web services, mailboxes, and so on.

Sphinx cannot directly connect to a data source and fetch the required data. For different sources Sphinx requires different code to prepare the data for indexing. The code that does this job is called as data source driver (or data source for brevity).

Sphinx is available with pre-built data source drivers for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. These drivers can connect to the database using Sphinx's native C/C++ API to run queries and fetch the data. The retrieved data is then indexed and stored in the indexes.

Another driver called xmlpipe2 (and xmlpipe which is now deprecated) is shipped with Sphinx. This driver executes the specified command and reads the data from its stdout. The data is expected in a predefined XML structure. This data source is very useful...

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Authors (1)

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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