At silverorange, we've written a custom, database driven search engine for our sites. It's called NateGoSearch and is available under the LGPL. The documentation is not perfect (API documentation exists but no tutorials or high-level documentation exists) but it does work for what we need. See http://www.veseys.com/ca/en/search for an example of it being used.
http://pear.silverorange.com/get/NateGoSearch-1.0.3.tgz http://docs.silverorange.com/nategosearch/package-summary.html I'm sure we could adjust the license if you want to use it in the Zend Framework. -Mike On Fri, 2007-26-01 at 12:53 -0800, Gavin Vess wrote: > Speaking purely from my personal thoughts ... > > I have used numerous search engines over the past 12 years, some costing > six figures for a license. > > There are some reasonable alternatives, but only for rare situations, IMHO: > o commercial - those needing one of the premium commercial search > engines to satisfy "special" requirements > o special-purpose - for unusual data sets or specific search methods > (e.g. concept based or natural language), where search algorithms can be > heavily customized to good effect > o using PHP extensions - difficult to deploy, but could reap the > advantages of PHP extensions written in C/C++ > > I have often been frustrated by the shortage of good, convenient, free > search engines for standard purposes with web applications. Now we have > Zend_Search_Lucene .. my favorite :) > > Cheers, > Gavin > > Matthew Ratzloff wrote: > > Since the Lucene search is Zend_Search_Lucene and not Zend_Search > > itself, I've been wondering if we'll see additional search > > implementations after 1.0, and what those might be. Is Lucene > > sufficient for most people, or are there other options out there that > > people would like to see? > > > > Just curious, > > > > -Matt > > > > p.s. I'm sending this to fw-general because it isn't about > > Zend_Search_Lucene specifically. >
