Sphinx: Queries and APIs

Two weeks ago, in Sphinx: Search Outside the Box I took a high-level look at why Sphinx is a great choice for full text indexing large data sets. Last week, in Sphinx: Getting Practical we dove into setting up Sphinx and building a simple index and querying it from the command line.

Now it‚Äôs time to get serious and look at writing some simple code that can query a running Sphinx index and take advantage of its growing number of advanced query features. The Sphinx Documentation is obviously the definitive reference, but I hope to show just enough sample code that you realize how easy it is to start talking to a Sphinx server…

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