Thinking Sphinx

I target to finish this ticket at the end of Oct. Let see if I have enough free time in VN :)

Hey Tien.

I just had the idea of using Thinking Sphinx to let users search through their track play history.

Look here:

!http://img.skitch.com/20081117-9xf7pkntdm7q1ha841rh7hyt4.png!

It would be nice to have a 'live search' where someone could type an IP, a username, or a part of the name of a track to see only those results.

What do you think? Would sphinx be a good fit?

Hi Sudara,

Did you mean "live search" is function like Google Auto-suggestion?

Or somethinng like this http://orderedlist.com/demos/qui...?

I think Sphinx will help to find a list of satisfied results more quickly than database query, after that we can use ajax to display searched results to make them look like "live search".

We can search for word prefix and suffix also. For example:

When a user typed "suda", "sudara" should apprear in search results.

We can do that using Sphinx by turning on enable_start and setting min_prefix_len and min_infix_len config paramaters of Sphinx.

http://www.sphinxsearch.com/docs...

Hi Tien

Yes, some kind of ajax search that would talk to Sphinx. But this is only for the listen history, and it would be different from the site search. This would be so that people could quickly look through their listens...

The normal search should not be ajax, just normal like it is now. And it would be GREAT for 'suda' to match 'sudara' for example.

:)

How are you?

Sudara

On Nov 18, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Lighthouse wrote:

Hi Tien!

Long time no talk!

How is everything? Do you think you want to work more on thinking sphinx, or should I finish it up?

We moved to engineyard last week!

merry christmas from america, sudara