Hi Tom I think you're out of luck with combining sort types - Sphinx only accepts one or the other. And reading over the documentation, I'd say you're right in assuming DESC is the default (it doesn't say, but higher values indicate better matching, I think).
Cheers -- Pat On 05/04/2009, at 11:28 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > > Thanks Pat. :sort_by works. I don't think the docs make reference to > that anywhere or at least not to the :expr usage. > > Also, do you know if there is a way to specify both expression and > SPH_SORT_EXTENDED type sorting, like: > > :sort_by => "@weight+1, price ASC" > > And I could not get ASC or DESC to work for :expr based sort so I am > guessing it always sorts DESC. Do you know if that is the case? The > sphinx search docs don't seem to cover this. > > Thanks, > Tom > > On Apr 3, 1:04 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sorry, that was a little terse, let me elaborate. >> >> :order is an ActiveRecord option - and so to make things easier, I >> translate it across to :sort_by (the Sphinx equivalent), with some >> smarts to ensure sorting for fields works, etc. It seems like it's >> not >> clever enough, if it's not working in your situation. I'll look >> into it. >> >> Cheers >> >> -- >> Pat >> >> On 03/04/2009, at 4:02 PM, Pat Allan wrote: >> >> >> >>> Try :sort_by instead of :order - although it would be nice if it >>> worked as you stated. >> >>> -- >>> Pat >> >>> On 03/04/2009, at 1:18 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> >>>> I was trying to play around with expression based sorting but >>>> having >>>> no luck (sphinx returns no results so I must be doing something >>>> wrong). I tried something like: >> >>>> :sort_mode => :expr, :order => "@weight+1" >> >>>> just as a simple test. If anyone has a simple working example you >>>> could share I would appreciate it. >> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Tom > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
