[eoc_Jason]

Thanks for the feedback mute. I would be interested to see what the vB team has come out with thus far (for 4.0) but I doubt they would release the file to anyone.

I've been writing things out and reading over the sphinx documentation with a fine tooth comb. Sphinx DOES support Boolean mode, along with like half a dozen other methods. One thing I plan on doing is offering ALL the features on the vB search page, so no template edit required there to strip things down or remove features... Also I'm going to try and implement the various search modes based on how a user inputs their search criteria... i.e. if they use quotes "This must match exactly" then it will use a phrase search.

I have an idea on how to keep near-time up-to-date with the reply #, views, last poster, etc... So that you wouldn't have to wait for your full re-index to update those values.

I also need to make note to utilize the "similar threads" search to go to sphinx. I do not know if there is a hook for that (I remember the code is burred somewhere), that *might* require a file edit, or disable similar threads if you want to delete your fulltext indexes.