Going thru all the documentation and results from google, I can’t find or figure out how to set sort_mode when using realtime indexes.
I am simply using SphinxQL with pdo_mysql to connect to sphinx and running queries like:
SELECT item_id, item_type FROM my_index WHERE MATCH (:search_string) OPTION ...
Can I set a sort_mode? How?
The sort mode is not directly exposed. But can do everything it can do in other ways.
For time-segments see
http://sphinxsearch.com/blog/2010/06/27/doing-time-segments-geodistance-searches-and-overrides-in-sphinxql/