: > 1 web server running PHP : > 1 MySQL server (which will still be used, but not for fulltext : > queries) : > 1 server running Lucene : > The Lucene index will be created out of the MySQL data. : > : > My question: How can I send a query from the webserver using PHP to : > the : > Lucene server and get my list of result IDs back? : > I suppose one needs some kind of daemon?
: Have a look at Solr, which sounds like the ideal tool for the job: : : <http://incubator.apache.org/solr/> I agree, Solr sounds perfect for your needs (and i'm not just saying that because I'm a Solr committer) * you update a Solr index by HTTP POSTing simple xml "documents" - so your indexing code can be written in any language you want, and run on whatever machinemakes sense for your installation. * you query a Solr index by HTTP GETing simple xml resuults - so your query code client can be a PHP app, or anything else thta can fetch/parse xml documents over HTTP. * if your documents have a unique identifier, Solr will make sure that any "adds" you send it with a document id it already knows about get replaced (no duplicates) so you can just POST data to it anytime you modify your MySQL DB - no need to worry baout wether it's an add or an update. * Solr's schema will let you tell it which fields are integers, floats, strings, dates, etc... and will make sure range queries or sorting on those fields works properly without you having to worry about special formatting. the Schema also lets you say which fields you wnat to be searchable, which ones should be stored, which analyzer to use for which fields, etc... so you don't have to write any javacode to maintain your index -- just configuration. (okay .. i think that's enough pimping for one email ... head on over to the "solr-user <a> lucene.apache.org" mailing list if you have any questions) -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
