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Asked: 2026-06-02T19:54:11+00:00

sql_query=SELECT id,headline,summary,body,tags,issues,published_at FROM sphinx_search I am working on the search feature of my Web

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sql_query=SELECT id,headline,summary,body,tags,issues,published_at
FROM sphinx_search

I am working on the search feature of my Web site and I am using Sphinx, Perl and Sphinx::Search. As long as I want to search in all the attributes and I don’t restrict it to just one, everything goes well. However when the user searches for a specific tag, I can’t just give the result of a fuzzy search, I want to use the power of Sphinx to search only on tags or issues, maybe sometimes the user wants to search on headline and issues.

How can I perform such a task?

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    You need to put it in Extended Match Mode

    https://metacpan.org/module/JJSCHUTZ/Sphinx-Search-0.27.2/lib/Sphinx/Search.pm#SetMatchMode

    Then you can use Extended Query syntax

    http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#extended-syntax

    Which includes the field search operator

    @tags keyword1

    (Be careful with sphinx, the word “attribute” has a specific meaning – values attached to the document, useful for sorting/grouping/filtering and returning with the resultset. Whereas I think you are talking about fields. All the columns from the sql_query you dont mark as an attribute, are a field – and full text searchable)

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