I've been asked to add a site search facility to our intranet site I'm
working on at the moment. I'm currently wondering what my best
options are. The difficulty is that quite a bit of the site content is
stored in extension specific tables. Is using sphinx my best option?
Hi John,
We've been using Sphinx (by way of the excellent Thinking Sphinx
plugin) since switching from Ferret almost 2 years ago and never
looked back. It's far more stable and the TS syntax is the best of the
bunch, as far as I'm concerned.
The Sphinx Search extension was written for your scenario. In addition
to indexing page content, you only need to add a define_index block to
your custom models and they'll be indexed as well. At the moment
there's a search results page class and associated tags for outputting
the results, but you may have to tinker to get the tags to work with
models that aren't Pages. There may be a way to abstract that out
using the newer excerpts feature of Thinking Sphinx, but I haven't
investigated that yet.
http://github.com/digitalpulp/radiant-sphinx-search-extension
Let me know if you have any questions about usage.
Best,
Josh
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Josh French
Senior Engineer, Digital Pulp
[email protected] // 212.679.0676 x230
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