On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 05:54:09AM -0700, pghoratiu wrote:
> 1. Search for properties of an item - like the color of a car, engine
> size. How well the search engine works in this case?

sfLucene/Zend_Search_Lucene can do this.

> 2. Is it possible to combine the search provided by Lucene with other
> filtering/criterias that can be implemented on the database level.
> From what I could tell this is not possible, Lucene works only on
> indexed data.

Not easily.

> 3. What other options are to have it work as a separate search service
> (on another machine to avoid the overload on the server running the
> application)? I was looking into the Solr project but I don't think
> this is available with any of the Symfony plugins available. Any other
> ways to separate the search engine functionality from the PHP
> processing on the website?

sfLucene cannot do this (or maybe it can, but I have never tried). 

The follow-up search plugin for symfony 1.1 called sfSearch will 
eventually able to do this, however.

Carl

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