Digital Doctor
Well-known member
Our big-board search solution lies elsewhere.
It would be nice to know what it is
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/development-update-may-2011.16084/#post-211755
Our big-board search solution lies elsewhere.
It would be nice to know what it is
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!
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.
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 .....
When can you post an update of the addon? I've always wanted to see what the hype was about.One tip: I updated my Sphinx on the sandbox forum to 2.0.5-release. In the distribution is a new sphinxapi.php file. I renamed it to "Sphinxapi.php" (as the filenames are case-sensitive) and replaced it in this plugin. The search still operates, albeit still broken in a few ways. But it is probably a good idea to include the proper API file to match the version of Sphinx you are using on your server.
As for searching profile posts, I did a few searches here and noticed that only profile posts are retrieved, not comments. That makes things easier.
Yeah I can't afford all that stuff plus my board isn't a big board but I would still a search engine that works better than the default xenforo search engine. The current search engine frustrates me.Not sure yet--I will need help coding parts of it. I am taking a shot right now at adding to sphinx.conf so it will index the profile posts. I am also now thinking that for the additional search capabilities, it will need some changes in the data being gathered for the post and thread indexes (for sorting and narrowing down the searches, thanks to the new search options in XF 1.1 and higher).
The basic functionality is already in place, and Sphinx works on maybe half of the search functions already in the forum. So I feel it is not that far away from being usable. But it needs that extra bit of a push to make it usable. I also struggle a bit since the coding style is different from my own.
Despite not having some of the features of ElasticSearch, I still feel it is a very valid search option for XF. A lot of us can't afford the type of managed server needed to afford us the memory for 7.5 million posts. Sphinx works fantastically well for us on vB3.7 straight from disk, which is why I can see its benefits on our upcoming XF move as well.
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