Monthly Archives: June 2008

A Lucene-based Search Plugin For WordPress

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: June 30, 2008

There are many things I love about WordPress — the extendability, the ease of use, and large library of themes available online, to name a few. But if there is one aspect of WordPress that needs a little work, it is the default search functionality. Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time working on [...]

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A Stemming Analyzer for Zend’s PHP Lucene

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: June 5, 2008

In my last post I spoke a little about Zend’s Lucene implementation in PHP, and its extensive usefulness for content-oriented PHP web applications. One of the roadblocks to implementing a Google-like search, however, was the absence of a stemming analyzer in the Zend package. While using PHP Lucene, I came across this issue while developing [...]

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A word on Lucene’s PHP port by Zend

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: June 5, 2008

Lucene is an open source search engine written in Java. If you have never heard of it prior to now, listen to this: It allows you to create a mini google-like search for anything. That’s right — anything. But I’ll be a little more specific: Consider you run a news website — or a wiki [...]

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