Last month @ SANIsoft blog April 1, 2011
- Announcing the release of Sphinx Search book
Many of you must be following my posts on Sphinx Search Engine over the past one year or so. Well, today I am happy to announce the release of my book Sphinx Search - Beginner’s Guide published by Packt Publishing. The book was released earlier this month, that is, March 2011. As the name suggests, [...] - [How To] Create a component in Joomla
Its really very easy to create a component for Joomla but the question often gets asked again and again. Lets see a simple example to create a component in joomla, which will output a simple text “Hello World”. For our basic component, we only require four files. First start with creating a com_hello folder in [...] - Introduction to using Zend_DB for database abstraction
Welcome back! Today we are going to look into database abstraction layer of one of the most popular MVC frameworks out there. Yes, you are right the framework is Zend framework and the component we will look at is Zend_DB. While Zend_DB is an important part of the framework, one of the best parts of [...] - Extended query syntax in Sphinx search engine
We have been discussing sphinx for the past several months and have seen how to install it, how to perform a full-text search and how to update the indexes. Being a full-text search engine, Sphinx supports different matching modes to cater variety of searching needs. The default matching mode used (if not set explicitly) is [...]
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