Sphinx Search

[RedWingFan]

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

Yeah, but for most of us Searchlight is not very affordable...

I'm afraid to ask how much... We run on donation funds ONLY.

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

I'm still super pissed at Jelsoft for not having any sort of sphinx plug-in / switch for vB 4.0... From all the previous development talk I was led to believe they were going to implement it (finally)...

I only got the idea that the search system was more "modular" now (??), meaning it would be easier to support alternate search engines like Sphinx. All I really noticed in the AdminCP was that you only have one option called "DB Search" to choose from, and there is NO clue as to whether this is a built-in vB search or fulltext or something new entirely. It couldn't be that difficult to code for Sphinx over MySQL fulltext...and to be honest, I'd rather have it done officially vs. using a third party hack or plugin. (Not knocking them, since I'm more than guilty of using many third party plugins myself.)

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

It's like they don't really care about the big boards... They are implementing all these other crazy features that maybe 0.2% of people *might* use, but not taking a hard look at the core of their product... *sigh*

Then again, the percentage of "big boards" is small also. But those of us who need Sphinx and use it are now at the point where we can't just fall back to fulltext without possibly bringing a server to its knees. We are at that point now. Sphinx also seems to have a lot more available in terms of configuring user searches AND indexing.

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

I'm about to install vB 4.0 on my test server. At the very least I'm going to try and code sphinx for the basic search stuff. To standardize things I'm going to try and code it with the PECL::Sphinx library.

I don't know if there's any code I can "borrow" from the current Sphinx hack I'm using. But I do know that the two deal breakers for us are Sphinx and iTrader (which gets a lot of use in our Marketplace area)...all the other plugins and template mods we're using can be easily replaced. Definitely will wait a few versions, too, since the 4.0.0 seems rushed and I'm finding at least a dozen problems with it already...