Question

Hey I am looking for a way to do search in our application written in PHP and with the Zend Framework.
The problem I want to fix is that some people write “Windows 95” and others “Windows95” again others “Win 95” or “Win95”.
I have read that there is the Zend_Search_Lucene Module but don’t know if that is the right way to go.

Do you have ideas? It should be written in PHP and should scale well so centralized storage would be extremly nice.

Answer 1

Well ,

my answer have nothing to do with Zend_Lucene because from my point of view ,

I love the way doctrine implement its fulltext search
they name it Text Analyzers , take a look :

By default Doctrine uses
Doctrine_Search_Analyzer_Standard for
analyzing the text. This class
performs the following things:

Strips out stop-keywords (such as
‘and’, ‘if’ etc.) As many commonly
used words such as ‘and’, ‘if’ etc.
have no relevance for the search, they
are being stripped out in order to
keep the index size reasonable. Makes
all keywords lowercased. When
searching words ‘database’ and
‘DataBase’ are considered equal by the
standard analyzer, hence the standard
analyzer lowercases all keywords.
Replaces all non alpha-numeric marks
with whitespace. In normal text many
keywords might contain non
alpha-numeric chars after them, for
example ‘database.’. The standard
analyzer strips these out so that
‘database’ matches ‘database.’.
Replaces all quotation marks with
empty strings so that “O’Connor”
matches “oconnor”

source http://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/orm/1.2/docs/manual/searching/en#introduction

I guess you can prepare your query before passing it to lucene and before creating your index