Searching CodeIgniter Apps with Sphinx

codeigniter, mysql, php

Due to popular demand, I’m writing this tutorial as a companion to my previous post, Searching SQL with Sphinx. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to use the excellent Sphinx search engine to provide full-text search functionality to database-powered CodeIgniter ap

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Searching SQL with Sphinx

mysql, ruby, ruby on rails

SQL wasn’t built for fast text searching - and there is only so much you can do with a LIKE statement. But more and more we are being asked to develop search functionality, and more and more developers are having to build increasingly powerful search mechanisms to handle the high level of search sophistication we now see as the default.

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