bridging php lucene: php-java-bridge or solr, anything else ? how facebook do search ?

hi there, i know this topic has been discussed over time. it seems like the current two most possible solutions are : 1) using php-java-bridge to call java class from php code http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-java-bridge 2) deploy solr and interact with php through http & xml http://incubato

Re: Extracting data from Lucene index files

Thanks a lot Doron, it worked fine and thanks for your tip as well! Prasanna Using term vectors means passing on the terms too many times - i.e - loop on terms - - loop on docs of a term - - - loop on terms of a doc Would something like this be better: do { System.out.println(tenum.

Re: boosting instead of sorting WAS: to boost or not to boost

Andrzej, I have been trying to solve a similar problem where I need to boost score based on the document type. Your approach is very interesting and I want to give it a try. I have a implementation specific question. When you mention to put as many "1" as the boost need to be, do you mean that t