On the SpinDrop blog today, Dave Dash continues his look at the Lucene search engine for the Zend Framework with this new post showing how to boost certain terms' relevance in the search results.

Lucene supports boosting or weighting terms. For example, if I search for members of a web site, and I type in Dash, I want people with the name Dash to take precedence over somebody who has a hobby of running the 50-yard Dash.

He shows how to, with the help of a few simple lines of PHP code added to your application, you can easily boost terms based on field by whatever multiplier you choose.

On the SpinDrop blog today, Dave Dash continues his look at the Lucene search engine for the Zend Framework with this new post showing how to boost certain terms' relevance in the search results.

Lucene supports boosting or weighting terms. For example, if I search for members of a web site, and I type in Dash, I want people with the name Dash to take precedence over somebody who has a hobby of running the 50-yard Dash.

He shows how to, with the help of a few simple lines of PHP code added to your application, you can easily boost terms based on field by whatever multiplier you choose.

On the Spindrop Blog today, there's the series wrapup for their look at using the Zend Search Lucene functionality inside of a Symfony application.

This is part of an on going series about the Zend Search Lucene libraries and symfony. We'll pretty everything up when we're done. We now know how to manipulate the index via our model classes. But let's actually do something useful with our search engine...let's search!

This quick post shows how to initialize the object and run the find() on the data and fetch out the results. They even work the script so that, if the index for the search isn't there, it generates it on the fly, then makes the search.

On the Spindrop Blog today, there's the series wrapup for their look at using the Zend Search Lucene functionality inside of a Symfony application.

This is part of an on going series about the Zend Search Lucene libraries and symfony. We'll pretty everything up when we're done. We now know how to manipulate the index via our model classes. But let's actually do something useful with our search engine...let's search!

This quick post shows how to initialize the object and run the find() on the data and fetch out the results. They even work the script so that, if the index for the search isn't there, it generates it on the fly, then makes the search.