Sphinx Search

[ALanJay]

Hi,

Well further to the above doing various test searches which all seem to produce the correct results I have discovered a couple more of these anomalies

when I set various search options - ie user or forums or date as well as text search I get these errors in sphinxapi.php there are various assertion test ie

line 209:

assert ( is_int($limit) );

line 234

/// set groups
function SetGroups ( $groups )
{
assert ( is_array($groups) );
foreach ( $groups as $group )
assert ( is_int($group) );

$this->_groups = $groups;
}

It looks like the defaults set in sphinx.php line 75

$cl = new SphinxClient ();
$cl->SetServer ( $sphinx_server, $sphinx_port );
$cl->SetWeights ( $sphinx_weights );
$cl->SetLimits ( 0, $vboptions['maxresults'] );
$cl->SetMatchMode ( SPH_MATCH_ALL );
$cl->SetGroups ( $sphinx_groups );
$cl->SetGroups2 ( $sphinx_groups2 );
$cl->SetGroups3 ( $sphinx_groups3 );
$cl->SetGroups4 ( $sphinx_groups4 );
$cl->SetGroups5 ( $sphinx_groups5 );
$cl->SetSortMode ( $sphinx_sort );

And before this some times for some searches they are set to strings line 52

$sphinx_forumid_group = 'group';
$sphinx_switch_group = 'group2'; //threadid
$sphinx_userid_group = 'group3';

This doesn't seem to effect the results but the assertion fails when the elements are not integers.

In the case of line 209 (sphinxapi.php) and line 75 (sphinx.php) these can be made to be (forced) to integers as they are obviously numbers ie

$cl->SetLimits ( intval(0), intval($vboptions['maxresults']) );

But I am not certain about the other elements and options which because the defaults are text strings don't work in the same way.

Anyway hope that helps.

By the way if anyone wants the recipe for using Sphinx with 3.0.X then let me know and I can remove my specific defaults and post it here. The biggest change is the recoding from OOP to the old style referencing of variables. But there always seem to be ones that meet the same requirements.

The only other things to spot are the changes to the search.php from the Vb code which follows the examples that Oban gave but obviously in slightly different locations in search.php ie

Make change c1 at around line 304
Make change c2 at around line 331
Make change c3 at around line 1210
Make change c4 at around line 1414
Make change c5 at around line 1147

sphinx.php see the diff file attached.

Once again very cool work Oban and we should also thank the Andrew Aksyonoff over at www.sphinxsearch.com