Time for action - creating a basic search script

1. 1. Add the searchd config section to /usr/local/sphinx/etc/sphinx-blog.conf:

   source blog {
   # source options
   }
   index posts {
   # index options
   }
   indexer {
   # indexer options
   }
   # searchd options (used by search daemon)
   searchd
   {
   listen = 9312
   log = /usr/local/sphinx/var/log/searchd.log
   query_log = /usr/local/sphinx/var/log/query.log
   max_children = 30
   pid_file = /usr/local/sphinx/var/log/searchd.pid
   }
   

2. 2. Start the searchd daemon (as root user):

   $ sudo /usr/local/sphinx/bin/searchd -c /usr/local/sphinx/etc/sphinx-blog.conf
   

   

3. 3. Copy the sphinxapi.php file (the class with PHP implementation of Sphinx API) from the sphinx source directory to your working directory:

   $ mkdir /path/to/your/webroot/sphinx
   $ cd /path/to/your/webroot/sphinx
   $ cp /path/to/sphinx-0.9.9/api/sphinxapi.php .
   
   

4. 4. Create a simple_search.php script that uses the PHP client API class to search the Sphinx-blog index, and execute it in the browser:

   <?php
   require_once('sphinxapi.php...