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.

p. Over at kapustabrothers.com, Shaun Farrell has started an article series on Indexing PDF Documents with 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.

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.

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.

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.

p. 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.