Summary

In this chapter:

• We saw what indexes are and how they are used in Sphinx

• We learned about fields and the different kind of attributes that go into the index

• We took a look at how to create the Sphinx configuration file

• We learned about SQL data source and xmlpipe data source

• We learned how to use different kind of attributes so that we can filter our search results

In the next chapter we will see how to use the Sphinx API to search from within your application. We will use the same index used in this chapter and fire queries from our PHP application to get the results.