Sphinx Search

[mute]

Originally Posted by orban

Try to download the patches again....I'm really sorry about this but I never created patches before

diff -Naur sphinx-0.9.6/src sphinx-0.9.6-multigroup/src > /home/xxxxxxx/www/public/sphinx.src.diff
diff -Naur sphinx-0.9.6/api sphinx-0.9.6-multigroup/api > /home/xxxxxxx/www/public/sphinx.api.diff

This is what I used.

No need to be sorry! I got it to apply before you fixed it! I'm playing with it now. I appreciate you sharing your progress with the rest of us, it saves us a lot of headaches

[gorman]

Could anybody create this as a standard plugin?

And... are others seeing the same extraordinary benefits?

[orban]

It is not possible to make this a plugin unless they add a ton of hooks to search.php.

Not to speak of general *n*x knowledge you need to install this anyway.

Owwwww

I forgot a step

Copy the sphinxapi.php to..hmm..some folder.

[kmike]

gorman: there is simply no comparison at all between MySQL embedded fulltext search and Sphinx-based search, both in terms of speed and relevance.

BTW, that's what I meant when I was replying to you at vb.com forums, about custom search solution.

[ubuntu-geek]

5. Uncomment "unset($datecut);" (-> "#unset($datecut);") so includes/sphinx.php can use it (for date range search).

Were exactly is this at?

[ubuntu-geek]

Originally Posted by orban

Doh, I mean comment it. So it doesn't get unset. >.<


line 12xx

In the section

// ################################################## ##########################
// check if we are searching for posts from a specific time period

Before

// ################################################## ###########################
// check to see if there are conditions attached to number of thread replies

perfect.. Was racking my brain on that one.. So far the implementation has been smooth. Only thing I am not keen on is the screen after a search that says please wait

[gorman]

Originally Posted by kmike

gorman: there is simply no comparison at all between MySQL embedded fulltext search and Sphinx-based search, both in terms of speed and relevance.

BTW, that's what I meant when I was replying to you at vb.com forums, about custom search solution.

Cool. Thanks. And... at least you replied. I'm kind of annoyed that a recognized problem of this magnitude is being left "on its own" by the development team.

[ubuntu-geek]

Originally Posted by orban

That's always been there :O

$vbulletin->url = 'search.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "searchid=$searchid";
eval(print_standard_redirect('search'));

Modify these lines and a add a straight header("Location:") maybe....

:0 I guess I am tired.. lol

[gorman]

Originally Posted by orban

It is not possible to make this a plugin unless they add a ton of hooks to search.php.

I'm mainly worried about upgrades... at the rate the vB team is churning them out, it could become a serious hassle to hand-modify templates each time.

[ubuntu-geek]

Originally Posted by gorman

I'm mainly worried about upgrades... at the rate the vB team is churning them out, it could become a serious hassle to hand-modify templates each time.

For me the speed increase is worth the few template edits..