-- monkeyiq <[email protected]> wrote (on Monday, 15 December 2008, 05:25 PM -0800): > Sorry if this is the incorrect forum for this question, but there seemed > to be a few Lucene questions here. > > I'm wondering what the primary motivations for reimplementing the Lucene > API in PHP were for the Zend_Search_Lucene project? For example, as opposed > to using something like CLucene through a PHP layer?
Primarily because a pure PHP implementation is more portable across server environments than relying on an extension or a separate Java process. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Software Architect | [email protected] Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
