Projects
I typically keep a few projects on the burner at all times. My most recent focus has been on the Zend port Lucene search engine. Accordingly, my two most recent projects deal with aspects of that.
A Lucene-based search plugin for Wordpress – wpSearch
The project is the holy grail of pluggable full text blog searching for Wordpress. This plugin is portable, easy to set up, and creates a blog search that blows away the default implementation provided by Wordpress. Maybe one day Wordpress will implement a true search, but until then, this plugin is the closest you can get. Interested? check it out the Lucene-based Wordpress Search Plugin.
A PHP-Lucene Standard Analyzer
Zend’s port of Lucene has been a Godsend for most PHP programmers looking to implement a solid fulltext search on their data. It’s ease of use and quality of coding is impeccable. If their is one hurdle in the way of being a google-like search, it is that Zend doesn’t offer a version of the “Standard Analyzer” that makes Java-based text searching so easy. This project is my attempt to create such an analyzer. It was created as a sub-project of wpSearch. Read more about it here.
KLogger, A Simple Logging Class for PHP
KLogger is a simple text file logging class for PHP. It was a subproject of wpSearch, and it currently comes packaged with wpSearch in the Wordpress plugin repository. I’m providing it here so anyone who needs it can use it. Go to the project page!
