http://www.mercurytide.com/knowledge/white-papers/django-full-text-search is a good article on adding full-text search to django using mysql. A search api branch of django can also be found here http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/branches/search-api.
I hope that helps. On Oct 17, 9:58 am, Eric Walstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Enquest,Enquest wrote: > > How hard is it to set up a search engine with Django?Easy! Just search the > > model documentation for 'search_fields'. That > is, the admin interface has this feature built in, you just need to tell > it which fields you want searched. > > > In PHP I used to explode, implode all words of an insert, update. Each > > word I would put in to a table words and an other tabel that referred to > > the words and id of where it came. You know the drill.I do something > > similar with the mine but I use my table data to create > 'documents' (in memory) that are indexed by the Xapian indexing engine. > This resulted in searches that are many orders of magnitude faster > than searching the db table directly (postgres, 8M recs). > > > In my own little failed framework in php I used to add in the model view > > =>search ... My system would then know this field needs to be > > search-able. > > > How hard would it be to set something similar in Django.Easy ;) > > > PS. is there any tutorial or plugin for this task to make it more easy > > to adept?I suggest trying Django's built-in "search engine" first as it's a > > snap > to setup and test. See the second page of the Django tutorial. If it's > not fast or flexible enough for you, then have a look at some of the > full-text search engines available. If you are using MySQL, it has one > built-in, I've heard. I've read that others here have had success with > "Swish-e" but I found, and it states this on its website, that the > indexer really slows down after a couple million documents. I chose > Xapian because the indexing my 8M records was accomplished in a > reasonable amount of time and the search engine is really quite fast; > that and because it has Python bindings. > > Search the mailing list archives for more on this subject as it's been > discussed here before. > > Best, > > Eric. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
