Building Documents Snippets (excerpts) using Sphinx search engine

Sphinx provides Search results displaying like Google snippets. ie. Build excerpts .

Its supports Java,PHP,Perl,Python.

Example:-

In PHP

1. Search document contents
   
   
2. Pass Search text to Sphinx
   
   
3. Sphinx returns doc ids.
   
   
4. Iterate Ids & get Document full contents by Id 
    
5. Pass Document contents and index to Sphinx BuildExcerpts.

options = array("limit" => 200);

BuildExcerpts(document_contents, index_name, search_texts, options);

 

6. Display Results.

                                                                                           -PAVANKUMAR JOSHI