Hi Thibaut MVA's are only for integers - so that'd only work if your tags are separate models, and you have an attribute for the foreign key. Otherwise, the space-separated tags is the best and simplest approach, I think.
Cheers -- Pat On 07/01/2009, at 4:28 PM, Thibaut Barrère wrote: > > Hi Christian, > > thanks for your reply. > >> The "clean" way to support tags would probably rely on multi- >> valued attributes [1]. > > Is it something that is supported by TS itself ? (I presume yes after > reading the front page, but can't find more examples - are there > examples somewhere ? (I found something more or less related here: > http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx/browse_thread/thread/921b4ca4e27feb4c/46d2ce49a262ae06) > >> Ignoring this, and assuming your current data model, you should note >> that Sphinx is a fulltext search engine. If your tags do not contain >> spaces themselves, spaces would be a good separator. I think a format >> such as "tag_1 tag_2 ... tag_N" would meet your needs. > > that could do the trick too, yes. Thanks for the hint! > > -- Thibaut > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
