You use a relational database an you do not have too much data
(~10000) records you can do
db(db.mytable.myfield.contains('text')).select()
If you have lots of data and lots of users you need something better.
I have never user Xapian. Ihave heard good things about http://sphinxsearch.com/
Massimo
On Sep 5, 11:53 am, John <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all.
> I'm newby in web2py.
> How to implement full text search in my web2py web application?
> I am a big fan of the Xapian search engine library. Any plugin,
> recipes suggestion ?
> Thanks ,
> John
