I searched for "sphinx" at the bakery and found nothing.... Adam, do you have a direct link?
THANKS! -John On Dec 7, 7:05 am, Adam Royle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have a look at sphinx, and the SphinxBehaviour on the bakery. > > Cheers, > Adam > > On Dec 7, 7:22 am, Clay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My app has the following: > > > Genus hasMany Species > > Species hasMany CommonName > > > and the corresponding belongsTo relationships as well. Each of these > > models has a name field, and Genus and Species have several other > > fields. > > > Say for example I have a Species Acer rubrum. This Species belongsTo > > Genus Acer and has a CommonName Red Maple. > > > I want my users to be able to search the database for "Red Maple" and > > get as a result Species Acer rubrum (with the CommonName Red Maple > > highlighted to show that's what it matched. I can do this already. > > Yay. > > > However if I have another Species with CommonName Bored Maple, I want > > to display this result too, but lower in the list than Red Maple. > > Since Bored comes before Red alphabetically I can't just order by > > CommonName.name to get the result I want. > > > So what I know I could do is a series of finds: > > 1) Find exact match: CommonName.name => $searchStr > > 2) Find starting match: CommonName.name LIKE => $searchStr . '%' > > 3) Find internal match: CommonName.name LIKE => '%' . $searchStr . '%' > > > And then merge them into my results array. > > > However, this seems very inefficient. Is there a way I can use cake's > > find() function to do this all in one go while ordering them in order > > of best match? I have thought about this for quite some time and done > > some research but I can't seem to find any clever solution. > > > I might be able to do a custom query with a bunch of SELECTs as above > > combined with UNION or something, but this would be a pretty complex > > query and not really much more efficient than what I already know how > > to do. > > > Thanks in advance any genius here who has a solution! > > > -Clay --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
