Sphinx Search

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Originally Posted by jwksite

Well, I seem to have gotten everything installed OK... but sorting by Relevancy returns 0 results...

Any reason why it should be doing this?

I am using Sphinx 0.9.8 and it did give me a few warnings about things in my sphinx.cron being deprecated, but the other parts of the search work just fine.

I followed the steps properly, so should I be looking in sphinx.php for the error or search.php? Thanks.

Resolved... I just used a different sphinx.php file. The one that Weeno supplied is brilliant! I was using a pretty hacked up one, I guess.

Actually.. I guess the only thing that does work is relevancy (aside from dateline)? I thought the sort_search_items() fix supplied a few pages ago was meant to allow searching with all the different sort options again. So I guess sorting by Thread, Username, etc is still not possible?

OK, I guess just anything numeric works, so sorting by dateline, replies, views, and relevancy works, but not the others. *edits the search template again*

--------------- Added [DATE]1201276186[/DATE] at [TIME]1201276186[/TIME] ---------------

Now... My next question is are we supposed to (or is it even needed) make use of "SphinxSE" if we have MySQL 5? I was reading that it plugs into MySQL for faster something-or-other but I'm not quite sure I get what it does.

Thanks everyone who has contributed! I'm really tickled to be able to search through 3M posts again!

I personally don't use SphinxSE. It's just another interface for Sphinx.

It is possible to sort by thread, username, and forum name. It just requires sorting on a ordinal attribute (converts text to ord for sorting). It'll be in mine at any rate.