TweetIn earlier post we saw how to install and configure sphinx. We also created an index for sphinx to search from. Now let us see how to search the index from a php script. Sphinx comes with a PHP implementation of searchd client API. You can find it at api/sphinxapi.php in the root of the [...]
TweetIn the two part series we will see how to install sphinx, prepare the index and then search the index from our php scripts. Shpinx is a free open source SQL full-text search engine and for those who might confuse it with the Great Sphinx of Giza, Sphinx is the acronym for SQL Phrase Index. [...]
TweetClient and Problem The client is a London based football enthusiast in his early twenties. He wanted to start his own fantasy site. Prior to Starting11 he use to run a very successful forum called MyTeamTalk. Majority of the forum members were playing Fantasy Football at a popular search engine portal at that time, lets [...]
TweetOK! this post should more appropriately be named "Disparate behavior of DATETIME field between MySql versions" and is none of CakePHP's fault in fact no one is to blame other than perhaps MySQL and myself but such things happen to almost everyone once in a while. CakePHP does a lot of things 'automagically' - one [...]