Sphinx Search Engine

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/development-update-may-2011.16084/#post-211755

I wonder how easy it would be to switch from the current Sphinx add-on to this new one. I am considering XF for the big board, and would be happy if either one worked...but do prefer an "official" add-on via XF of course. Sphinx was a huge improvement for vB3.7.

Would there be any chance of this being updated for v1.1?

At the moment, search still works on 1.1 beta 1 but it doesn't recognise the "Search this thread only" limit.

I didn't have time to install v1.1 yet, but I'll definitely have a look at it ASAP.

Excellent. If you need a stupidly large test site, let me know.

Can you also modify the mod to support all content types that the inbuilt search does, I know this will require additional indexes inside Sphinx to be created, wonder if there is a way to do a blanket index somehow .....

Really sorry I didn't have time to update the add-on yet. As we are planning to finally migrate our vBulletins to XF v1.1 there will be an update eventually. Unfortunately this is pretty much our hobby and I didn't have much free time lately. So just in case anyone wants to help developing this or wants to branch it out, feel free to use my code any way you want!

If I had the time and the brains to do it, I would take over. (I am a decent PHP coder but don't have dozens of hours to figure out how XF works behind the scenes.) I've seen what Sphinx did to our vB installation, and it was jaw-dropping.

Since it seems the big board search isn't forthcoming (unless I missed it--I'd seen the question asked but never saw an "official" reply) and this add-on won't work in 1.1 yet, we're looking at another upgrade path for our "big board" now. No enhanced big board search is the major deal killer for us, and I want vB's code off of our servers as soon as I can get something better in its place. I don't want anything from that despicable company on our server anymore...

The big board search is coming, but after 1.1. The focus is on getting 1.1 stable.

@mlx, I sent you the email about the possibility of helping you monetary speaking on the behalf of this mod.

Rudy, I would really appreciate a way to get in touch with you, could you please start a conversation with me? Thank you

We're probably going to move on and go with another system. We can't afford to wait any longer for "maybes." Thanks anyway.