Comments on: How to use Zend_Search_Lucene with the PHP framework CodeIgniter

By: Chris Jackson

Chris Jackson — Wed, 18 May 2011 12:56:00 +0000

@Mackenzie
For me, there are two sides: Microsoft and Linux. If I’m working on a site in the Linux world, I prefer PHP. If I’m using Microsoft, I like using C# and ASP.NET MVC. Codeigniter is a PHP built MVC framework that I also like using. There are similar ideas between the two, but the libraries that come with each are different. Website documentation is pretty good for both though.

By: Mackenzie Bongiovanni

Mackenzie Bongiovanni — Wed, 18 May 2011 12:11:48 +0000

Great info thanks! What language is close to php as far as functionality and ease of use?

By: Chris Jackson

Chris Jackson — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:57:28 +0000

@saad
You can pass your entire sentences into the indexer (either as separate fields or as one field; whichever makes more sense to you). Lucene will break up the words and be able to search any word within the sentence. So, you would want to index all fields in your database table that you want to be able to search.

By: saad

saad — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:00:30 +0000

nice article. I have to try it asap. I have been looking into creating a small search engine (which can potentially grow larger), saw the elasticsearch built on lucene. But, first, I will work simpl-lucene. My site is built on CI. The thing I am interested in is, the sentences are untagged ( in my case and so there is no meta-data stored with the sentence), like you add some random words in twitter. How the indexing will work here in this case?
Any thoughts?

By: Chris Jackson

Chris Jackson — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:07:40 +0000

@Brian
Sorry, I have not messed with CodeIgniter, or PHP for that matter, in over a year now. I would search around and see what you can find on the subject.

I have been working with a pagination class in c# that should be similar to what you need to do in PHP.

Basically, you need to create a class that stores a collection of objects. You can set other properties on the class like Total_Items, Page_Index, Page_Size, etc to tell how many records there are in total and which page you’re currently looking at.

Then, just use SQL to read in only the records you want to display and count the total number of records.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:39:23 +0000

Thank you, this has really helped me out!

My next challenge is to paginate the results, ideally via the codeigniter Pagination class (as opposed to the Zend Pagination class). Any suggestions?

By: Axelline

Axelline — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:21:33 +0000

Thank you so much. So there’s no worry about Lucene. I thought, Lucene can only make at Java. And then I should connecting Java and PHP with Javabridge, but I don’t know how to implement it. Finally I found Zend, and it makes Lucene easy to use. How stupid I’m…

By: Chris Jackson

Chris Jackson — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:49:39 +0000

I’m not sure what would slow down the page? The indexer will run slow, but you don’t have your users run the indexer. Instead, setup a cronjob or something to schedule it to run. Users should only run the code that queries the search index (such as under the Basic Search section).

By: jon matt

jon matt — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:38:19 +0000

i am using codeigniter framework in my site.
i have only 3 fields “website”, “data”,”tags” in mysql database

do you suggest to use this Zend_Search_Lucene search? i read that this will slow down the page. is there a better solution that you can suggest for me?

By: Chris Jackson

Chris Jackson — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:24:41 +0000

Sorry, I haven’t used zend_ldap yet. If I do find an opportunity to use it, I’ll be sure to post something. I’m sure there are tons of tutorials that can be found on google.