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Originally Posted by Xorlev

From what I've been reading, the Sphinx addon doesn't have the ability to search for posts by user, right? And the only way is to make a new field for a fulltext index?

Well, I'm not sure about Sphinx 0.9.7, but on my own (not vBulletin) site running Sphinx 0.9.8 I was able to replicate every feature of the vBulletin search and then some using only the API calls in the Sphinx PHP API. If someone could summarize what's missing in the vB Sphinx implementation I could possibly help write in the features missing. It really takes some experience to be able to work with Sphinx, the documentation is rather lacking.

From what I gather, there is a way to "find all posts by user" and "find all threads by user" using sphinx and appending a hidden prefix to each thread. I'm not running the latest vB so I couldnt get it working properly, but I did notice when I rebuilt my indexes with the additional information it bloated the index size up quite a bit.

I think I posted a page or so back about it.