Of Haystacks and Needles
Derick Rethans (20.May.2009 at 05:00)
Talk at php|tek 2009 (English - US)
Search is an important part of informative web-sites, but there are many different possible solutions to implement such a search. This session evaluates possible options for the integration of a search engine into your web-site, ranging from simple solutions such as MySQL's full text to using an external engine to power search.
This session deals with implementing a search engine in your PHP applications. After introducing some important concepts will this talk will focus on the multitude of different options to implement a search engine into your website. It will cover different implementations, such as MySQL full text, a PHP based search engine (Zend Lucene), a web service build around Zend Lucence (marjory) and an external Java based application (Solr) and interfaces to it. It will cover the weaknesses and strengths related to installation, availability and performance of all the different implementations that are covered, as well as some recommendations as to when to use what kind of implementation.
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01.Jun.2009 at 13:19 by Rafael Dohms
Interesting session by Derick covering various search methods on a trial-error basis based on own experience, very good to see what we are up against