Can anyone help me with a good list of php site search engines. I am thinking of implementing a google site search, but I would rather not pay for that and I would rather have as much control as I can over it.
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Read through Roll your own Search Engine with Zend_Lucene.
The article is rather old though, so have a look at the ZF Reference Guide about Zend_Lucene too. Searching for Zend Lucene on Google should yield plenty useful results too.
Gordon
2010-07-06 08:36:46
Do I have to be using the zend framework for this
kalpaitch
2010-07-06 08:47:14
@kalpaitch well, you have to use the `Zend_Lucene` component from the Zend Framework. You do **not** have to use ZF's MVC or other unrelated components. Remember, ZF is a library of loosely coupled components. Those components *can* be used together to form a full stack, but it is perfectly feasible to use them standalone, like you would use a PEAR component for instance. You can use ZF alongside other frameworks if you want, e.g. Symfony or CodeIgniter. It's not's all or nothing with ZF.
Gordon
2010-07-06 08:54:17
many thanks, please forgive my ignorance
kalpaitch
2010-07-06 08:59:55
@kalpaitch you're welcome. I remember there have been a number of questions about how to develop with Zend_Lucene on StackOverflow, so you might want to search around here.
Gordon
2010-07-06 09:01:23
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Sphinx is pretty good, but it isn't written in PHP. It has got PHP libraries to interface with it though. You could also have a look at Zend_Search_Lucene from Zend Framework. Both of these make search indexes so you can do fast searches.
Daniel Egeberg
2010-07-06 08:37:24
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You can try the Zend Lucene implementation:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.search.lucene.html
http://devzone.zend.com/article/91
Macmade
2010-07-06 08:37:36
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You don't have to pay for Google Site Search and there's a small chance for much control means greater quality of results.
If your site is very specific you need to write you own code for search.
fabrik
2010-07-06 08:38:11