Sphinx Search

[mute]

Originally Posted by mute

Our search is working flawlessly, and seeing ~4000 searches per day, which isn't too shabby at all.

Question for you guys, as I can't seem to find much in the way of documentation regarding the searches.

Does sphinx support "OR"? If you were to search for "test one two", it searches for all three with an implicit "AND". If you search for "blah not bleh", it will search for "blah -bleh". If you search for "test or task or mask", it will search for that literally (and likely ignore "or" as one of my stopwords)

Anyone? A couple of my more picky users are complaining, and I don't really have an answer for them, as I typically just do keyword searches.

So.. anyone smarter than I am have an answer to this?

[orban]

Ask in the sphinx forum maybe....:O

[mute]

I think that | is OR and & is AND, but I haven't tested it just yet. I hope they make it a tad more user friendly in the 0.9.7 release, my users aren't all that tech savy

[ALanJay]

As Oban says there has been discussion on these kind of things on the sphinx forum http://www.sphinxsearch.com/forum/

[mute]

Right, that's where I found it. I'll probably end up doing search and replace additions to my search page to replace natural language operators with their character representation.

[ALanJay]

A quick question has anyone sucessfully configured there search to work with 2 letter words?

I have set my system for max length of 2 but I still only seem to be able to find 3 letter words.

[amcd]

Originally Posted by ALanJay

A quick question has anyone sucessfully configured there search to work with 2 letter words?

I have set my system for max length of 2 but I still only seem to be able to find 3 letter words.

first tell me how to configure that then i will tell u my results

[mute]

Originally Posted by amcd

first tell me how to configure that then i will tell u my results

min_word_len = 2

Rebuild your indexes

[ALanJay]

I discovered that when you change the word lenght (or the stop bits file) you have to fully stop "searchd" and restart it for the changes to be taken into account.

Once searchd was restarted it behaved as expected.

Another query / thought. I have been so impressed by Sphinx that over the last couple of days we have impelemented a search of our non forum content using it. It works well. But I then thought it might be nice to create a simple search for the forums.

If anyone is interested I have some very basic code to do this - started with the code from test.php and once a valid result is found it does a search in the forum trhead database for the thread $docinfo[group2]

$article_query = "SELECT title, threadid FROM ???_forum.thread WHERE threadid='$docinfo[group2]'";

From there you can select the article trhead and create a simple output page.

If anyone in interest in more details shout and I might clean up the code so it can be looked at by all you pros

[DaiTengu]

Originally Posted by orban

It's weird though it doesn't even get set...should at least be an empty array. And why is it even a seperate global and not $vbulletin->coventry?

Just remove the line if you aren't using coventry then.

Such a mess

I'm also having this problem, and the forum I'm using it on _is_ using Coventry. The results are returned & everything, but I'm assuming they'll search posts & return results of posts of users that are in Coventry if I turn this off.

Other than that, I'm completely amazed at how fast search is running