I’ve been looking around for a while for full text search servers applets… I’ve found Sphinx (it worked for a while, until development was moved to mac, then everything fell apart; then I’ve looked into Solr; but couldn’t get this thing to work with phpmyadmin.
Any advice about a well integrated Full text search that works well with codeigniter on xammp?
Both solr and sphinx is an external service to your php,mysql,apache trio, the integration is pretty much as good as you make it. On osx, homebrew might help you along the installing compiling steps.
You can also take a look into the mysql’s built-in fulltext index, has less features than solr or sphinx and doesn’t support innodb tables, but it doesn’t require you to maintain an external service.