The Zend Framework provides an implementation of the Lucene search engine that can be used for full-text search. And there’s also Sphinx, the standalone (and very fast) full-text indexer for MySQL, PostgreSQL and XML content. This article looks at these two implementations, comparing and contrasting them and illustrating how they can be used to add full-text search to an application.
Indexing Email Messages with PHP, Zend Lucene and Sphinx
p. Over at kapustabrothers.com, Shaun Farrell has started an article series on Indexing PDF Documents with Zend_Search_Lucene.
Spindrop – Boosting terms in Zend Search Lucene
p. Dave Dash, over at spindrop.us, has posted a very short but interesting tutorial on how to add weight to search terms when using Zend_Search_Lucene. If you’ve been following spindrop.us’ Zend_Search_Lucene tutorial then you will want to make sure you spend the 2 minutes to read this installment.
Finding things using Zend Search Lucene
p. Spindrop has posted the second part of their series on using Zend_Search_Lucene from within Symfony. This article shows readers how to pretty everything up.
Using Zend_Lucene Inside of symfony
p. Spindrop has just posted a new tutorial on how to use the new sfZendPlugin to bring the power of Zend_Lucene into your symfony project.
Real World Example (with source) of a Zend_Search Implementation
p. I got this interesting email today on the Zend Framework mailing list. I thought I’d share it with everybody since I know two or three DevZone readers aren’t yet subscribed to it. Click on inside for details and hot cider for this chilly day.
Using Zend Search Lucene in a Symfony Application
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Those wild code dogs over at spindrop.us have released an interesting and very thorough tutorial on integrating Zend_Search_Lucene into a Symfony application. Give me a page click and I’ll give you the whole story.

