sphinx

Article search engine in php

Hello, I am using sphinx as a search engine on my website its working perfect and I have no complain with it. The only thing it lacks is, it does not allow me to search articles whose query length is more than 15 words. I know in reality people don't use more than 3-4 words i want to use it for finding duplicate contents. I was wonderi...

Rails Serch Integration

I have been looking at integrating a search engine into rails, and I am considering both Sphinx with the Thinkink Sphinx plugin, or possibly Solr with the acts as solr plugin. My question is which one works best in general? As far as I can see sphinx seems to be the option most people go with to get a basic search up and running. ...

Can sphinx be used over cassandra?

I am planning to build a cassandra store system and also I need a full-text(Chinese) system too. Can sphinx be used on cassandra? (sphinx supports xml format but I am not going to use it, cause it is slow and much of time are spent on xml parsing). Or you can share your experiences if you have ever built a full-text searching system over...

What is the difference between searchlogic and other fulltext search plugins?

I am looking for an alternative to acts_as_solr or thinkingsphinx for fulltext search in my Rails app. Came across searchlogic. Does it support indexing? I am planning to host my app on heroku and I want an alternative because heroku charges for Websolr. I am aware of the alternative way of using texticle or acts_as_tsearch but i want t...

sphinx return everything using Query

Is it possible to return everything? when $words="" $result = $cl->Query( $words, 'test1' ); it returns nothing, is there a way for it to return everything? ...

sphinx questions about searching multiple columns

if i am trying to search "a b". a appears in column x, b appears in column y. when i do SPH_MATCH_ALL the row does not show up.. ...

sphinx and languages other than English

I found in http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/trunk/sphinx/locale support for several languages that can be used in Sphinx but I did not find the instructions on how to install it: which files should be downloaded and installed in which directories? Any hint would be appreciated. ...

ruby on rails - ultrasphinx

Ruby on Rails - UltraSphinx Hi guys, I'm using Ultrasphinx for the search thing. My question is : I have the "rake ultrasphinx:daemon:start" running in the background. Now, should I have a cron job that does "rake ultrasphinx:index" regularly or will the daemon take care of indexing whenever a new object is created. Please, let me kno...

Data denormalization and C# objects DB serialization

I'm using a DB table with various different entities. This means that I can't have an arbitrary number of fields in it to save all kinds of different entities. I want instead save just the most important fields (dates, reference IDs - kind of foreign key to various other tables, most important text fields etc.) and an additional text fie...

how to put my own words. small problem in Sphinx configuration

hi, i have setup Sphinx and tested Hello World and its working fine. but i wanted to change the words. so i change the WSJ extension and edited the Dictionary and included the name which i wanted with the phonemes. and then i zip it and again change the extension type to jar and checked. but it says "WARNING jsgfGrammar Can't fi...

How to combine sphinxquerysets in djang-sphinx

querysets from django can be combined with a pipe like so: q1 = Articles.objects.filter(name="goats") q2 = Articles.objects.filter(name='cows') q1 = q1|q2. Is there a way to do this for sphinxquerysets? So far, I'm striking out. ...

Mysql Database Question about Large Columns

Hi, I have a table that has 100.000 rows, and soon it will be doubled. The size of the database is currently 5 gb and most of them goes to one particular column, which is a text column for PDF files. We expect to have 20-30 GB or maybe 50 gb database after couple of month and this system will be used frequently. I have couple of questi...

Make Sphinx quiet (non-verbose)

I'm using Sphinx through Thinking Sphinx in a Ruby on Rails project. When I create seed data and all the time, it's quite verbose, printing this: using config file '/Users/pupeno/projectx/config/development.sphinx.conf'... indexing index 'user_delta'... collected 7 docs, 0.0 MB collected 0 attr values sorted 0.0 Mvalues, 100.0% done sor...

Make Sphinx generate RST class documentation from pydoc

I'm currently migrating all existing (incomplete) documentation to Sphinx. The problem is that the documentation uses Python docstrings (the module is written in C, but it probably does not matter) and the class documentation must be converted into a form usable for Sphinx. There is sphinx.ext.autodoc, but it automatically puts current...

Thinking-sphinx and relevance or similarity score

Does someone know if there is a way to get the raw relevance or similarity score between a query and a result when using sphinx in general or thinking-sphinx as a wrapper? Any help is greatly appreciated. ...

Why does django-sphinx only output 20 results? How can I get the rest?

Doing a search using django-sphinx gives me results._sphinx that says there were 68 results, but when I iterate over them, I can only get at the first 20 of them. I'm SURE there's a way around this, and that this is by design, but it's officially stumping the heck out of me. Does anybody know how to get the complete queryset? ...

Regex for finding valid sphinx fields

I'm trying to validate that the fields given to sphinx are valid, but I'm having difficulty. Imagine that valid fields are cat, mouse, dog, puppy. Valid searches would then be: @cat search terms @(cat) search terms @(cat, dog) search term @cat searchterm1 @dog searchterm2 @(cat, dog) searchterm1 @mouse searchterm2 So, I want to u...

Referencing figures with numbers in Sphinx and reStructuredText

Hi, When writing RST that will be processed with Sphinx, I can't get Sphinx LaTeX output to use figure numbers when referencing figures. For instance, this code: The lemmings are attacking, as can be seen in :ref:`figlem`. .. _figlem: .. figure:: _static/lemming_invasion.* They're coming! Will be converted into this: The l...

Using sphinx to create context sensitive html help

Hi all, I am currently using AsciiDoc (http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/) for documenting my software projects because it supports pdf and html help generation. I am currently running it through cygwin so that the a2x tool chain functions properly. This works well for me but is a pain to setup on other windows computers. I have been lo...

multiple substitutions inside links in reST

My question is nearly identical to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1227037/substitutions-inside-links-in-rest-sphinx except that I want to have text substitution within the role text. That is, I want to be able to say something like :apilink:`/search?api_key=\ |demo_api_key|\ &query=monkeys` Is there a way to do this? ...