Due to a licensing issue, the PHP bindings for Xapian were removed from Debian Squeeze. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513796 for more information about this. Though, it is not really hard to build your own package from source. Here is how: sudo apt-get build-dep xapian-bindings sudo apt-get install php5-dev php5-cli apt-get source xapian-bindings cd xapian-bindings-1.2.* rm debian/control env […]
Update 2012-01-17: this article is quite old now and it might be completely irrelevant. It is only provided as a hint which might help you out writing a procedure in PHP to manage indexing. As Olly Betts (main developer of Xapian) commented below, the error message doesn’t come directly from Xapian either, but it might […]
While on part-time holidays from Dokeos, I’m looking into some of the stuff I will need to be aware of when working on Dokeos for the next year. I think you can call that technology watch. Anyway, I’m looking into CakePHP, PostgreSQL and most of all Xapian (although I did not yet reach that point). […]
Xapian is one of the indexation/search engines I’m planning on integrating to Dokeos instead of the current indexation/search engine that we have at the moment: MnoGoSearch. There are many reasons for that change: MnoGoSearch server is not GPL under Window, which makes it impossible for us to ship as part of Dokeos MnoGoSearch has crappy […]
This article was first written in March 2005 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/215). Probably the best reference about Searching Engines: http://www.searchtools.com/tools/ Of special interest in the Open Source market: ht://Dig mnoGoSearch Apache Lucene KnowledgeTree Hyper Estraier Xapian DocMgr Pinot Namazu SPyRO, SPyDI, and related Projects Tracker Middlewares Emdros OpenFTS DB tsearch2 (PostgreSQL) MySQL
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