fromscratch

web solutions from Brussels

Brussels-based programming, consultancy design and project management for the web.

~~OpenSource and standard-oriented as a philosophy, we provide advanced web applications for private, companies, NGOs and EU-related projects.~~

~~From e-Commerce to CMS, from groupware to online project management, your web 2.0 applications are in safe and expert hands.~~

Fromscratch closed on Dec 31st, 2008 and this website won't be updated any longer, since I work as a full-time web-developer

for Intrasoft International on the Euresin project for DG COMM.

Thanks to Clients, colleagues and friends who made my 2004-2008 freelance experience unforgettable.

Lucene is running. And now what?

Sun, May 18th 2008, 00:29

Running Lucene, and 3rd party libraries including Zend classes in CakePHP, is quite an easy task. Building an index is not that difficult, neither querying it - Lucene and its Zend port will do it for you.

The point is - I'm still working on an effective optimisation of my index building. If you search for "cakephp", for instance, you will get any of the website's pages as I'm indexing the whole page contents via CURL, as I'm fortunatelly not allowed for security reasons to open remote URLs via PHP. And I chose not to build my index neither by querying the DB nor the RSS - the latter being the most interesting alternative, and last by not least well explained by the Zend's frameworks Lucene tutorial itself.

Well, I'll maybe post something about CakePHP, Zend and Lucene one day. And thanks a lot in the meantime to Snook.ca, to the Bakery article, and to several other step-by-step Zend Lucene implementations I found here and there which I'll be happy to mention in a separate article.

Just try it out in the meantime if you wish. I must say that I'm more and more impressed by ZF libraries as I'm getting used to them.

tags: cakephp, zend, integration, search engine, lucene