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I'm embarking on building a site that uses c5 for all the content management but uses Wordpress (installed on the same server) for the blog section, as seems to be the current recommendation (seehttp://www.concrete5.org/index.php?cID=1754)... for robust blog features.

My question is this: How can I build a global site search that will see content in both the C5 and wordpress DB's? Has anyone come upon this problem? I'd prefer not to have to use domain-restricted Google search or the like.

Thanks!
Jory
 
drietsch replied on at Permalink Reply
drietsch
Hi Jory!

There are actually quite a few possibilities to do this.

1.) Sphinxsearch
Configure the SQL Indexer to grab the needed information from the Wordpress and c5 tables and construct the needed target URLs.
http://www.sphinxsearch.com/

2.) Apache Lucene/Nutch
Create an Lucene-Index with the Nutch Website Crawler (really fast). The resulting index can than be searched with Lucene or the Lucene extension for the Zend Framework.
http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/...

3.) Sphider (PHP only)
Sphider is a website crawler and search engine written in pure PHP. The results are not quite as good as using nutch but this solution is really easy to implement.
http://www.sphider.eu/

Cheers
Dietz
Jory replied on at Permalink Reply
Jory
Thank you Dietz! I'll try those solutions.
ScottC replied on at Permalink Reply
ScottC
concrete5 is using full-text search in it's latest iteration. I know they used lucene for a while but full-text is what they are rolling with for now.

sphinx sounds interesting.

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