[Phpwm] Site search recommendations

[David Goodwin]

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> If you want to put a lot of data in it, or need speed, I'd suggest you
> use one of the various standalone indexing tools like xapian, sphinx or
> the java version of lucene - these will have a long running process and
> will provide far better performance.
> 
>> How do you integrate these things with PHP? Are there decent PHP
>> wrappers round a Lucene process, for example? Do you present it as a web
>> service? Low-level sockets? Or do you write your own command line
>> wrapper or something?


http://xapian.org/docs/bindings/php/


I've not seen any wrappers for the Java lucene stuff.


This might be of interest too :

http://www.roryoung.co.uk/blog/post/introducing-forage---search-abstraction-for-php.html


There have been a number of grumbling posts about Zend_Search_Lucene
recently - see e.g.

http://www.builtfromsource.com/2008/11/07/zend_search_lucene-not-enterprise-ready/

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David Goodwin

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
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