Sphinx search : beginner's guide : implement full-text search with lightning speed and accuracy using Sphinx / Abbas Ali.

"Community experience distilled."

"Learn by doing: less theory, more results"--Cover.

Includes index.

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Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Setting Up Sphinx; What you need to know; Different ways of performing a search; Searching on a live database; Searching an index; Sphinx-a full-text search engine; Features; A brief history; License; Installation; System requirements; Sphinx on a Unix-based system; Time for action -- installation on Linux; Options to the configure command; Known issues during installation; Sphinx on Windows; Time for action -- installation on Windows; Sphinx on Mac OS X

Time for action -- installation on a MacOther supported systems; Summary; Chapter 2: Getting Started; Checking the installation; Full-text search; What is full-text search?; Traditional search; Time for action -- normal search in MySQL; MySQL full-text search; Advantages of full-text search; When to use a full-text search?; Overview of Sphinx; Primary programs; Time for action -- Sphinx in action; Data to be indexed; Creating the Sphinx configuration file; Searching the index; Why use Sphinx for full-text searching?; Summary; Chapter 3: Indexing; What are indexes?; Indexes in Sphinx

Index attributesTypes of attributes; Multi-value attributes (MVA); Data sources; How to define the data source?; SQL data sources; Creating Index using SQL data source (Blog); Time for action -- creating database tables for a blog; Time for action -- populate the database tables; Time for action -- creating the Sphinx configuration file; Time for action -- adding attributes to the index; Time for action -- Adding an MVA to the index; xmlpipe data source; xmlpipe2 data source; Indexing with schema defined in XML stream; Time for action -- creating index (without attributes)

Time for action -- add attributes to schemaIndexing with schema defined in configuration file; Time for action -- create index with schema defined; in configuration file; Summary; Chapter 4: Searching; Client API implementations for Sphinx; Search using client API; Time for action -- creating a basic search script; Matching modes; Time for action -- searching with different matching modes; Boolean query syntax; Time for action -- searching using Boolean query syntax; Extended query syntax; Time for action -- searching with extended query syntax; Filtering full-text search results

Time for action -- filtering the result setWeighting search results; Time for action -- weighting search results; Sorting modes; Grouping search results; Summary; Chapter 5: Feed Search; The application; Tools and software used while creating this application; Database structure; Time for action -- creating the MySQL database and tables; Basic setup; Time for action -- setting up the feeds application; Add feed; Time for action -- creating a form to add feeds; Saving the feed data; Time for action -- adding code to save feed; Indexing the feeds; Time for action -- create the index

Implement full-text search with lightning speed and accuracy using Sphinx.

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