Sphinx search ported to PECL

Anthony Dovgal reported on adding open source SQL full-text search engine sphinx to PECL. The documentation is available on the PHP site, the engine is available upon including sphinxapi.php in your application.

You know the usual InnoDB vs. the MyISAM trade-offs, where the former is faster, but the latter has the full-text search? Sphinx is a free open-source full-text search engine that works with many RDMBS, and now is pretty easy to incorporate into PHP. A simple example of calling Sphinx is available here:

$s = new SphinxClient;
$s->setServer("localhost", 6712);
$s->setMatchMode(SPH_MATCH_ANY);
$s->setMaxQueryTime(3);
$result = $s->query("test");