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Zend and the Art of Search

  1. Zend and the art of search Dave Dash Spindrop LLC Minneapolis USA * I’m a symfony evangelist for any who’ll listen * I write articles and how-tos on spindrop.us * I’m the lead developer for reviewsby.us * I’ve worked on a number of symfony sites, many which boast search powered by Zend
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  3. bridge = simple * Even without help, Zend and ezComponents are easy to use within symfony * But why not build a bridge * The Bridge is simple, it allows us to call classes from Zend or other frameworks and autoload them * That’s it
  4. lucene * We’re going to specifically look at Zend Search Lucene * Great way to quickly add a powerful search engine to your web app * Apache Lucene is a feature-rich, but easy to use search engine library written in Java * Ported to C, Ruby and of course PHP * The ports generally use binary compatible libraries, meaning we can write one part of the search in Java and another part in PHP if necessary * PHP isn’t always the best language for heavy server-side lifting, so we can pull out resource-intensive processes that are unbecoming of a PHP script and use Java to take care of them. We’ll touch on that later
  5. search = 3 things * We’ve got a bridge, we’ve got a php library, search is a snap, so let’s talk about adding it to our applications * There’s three or four things we do with a search engine * Index records * Delete records * Query records * We do update, but at least with Lucene that involves deleting and indexing * If you’ve seen the tutorials I have online they are written in a propel-specific manner, this is by no means a requirement, we can very easily use Doctrine or any type of object we want to index * If we have time, which we might, I’ll show a demo with the code in action if people would like * Since our primary task is searching or querying records we’ll start there * In either our Peer or Table class for our object which we have indexed we’ll want a query method. * This method loads the search index and uses the Zend Search Lucene library to query * All these queries will be useless without a built up index * In our object’s class we override the save method and have it delete all the old records of the object in the index (if any) and create a new one from scratch using the Zend API * We store the fields we’d want to search on in the index * Finally we need to override our delete method for our object and make sure it removes its records in the search index upon deletion
  6. extension
  7. questions?
  8. i can has demo?
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