I noticed search on DP with VB4 isn't all too bad. I run a forum that's very much smaller but still search kills everything since upgrading. Were you able to get a sphinx working?
Excuse me for my ignorance, but what is Sphinx? Also, Shawn - (Join Date,Location,Posts, and Phone verified are all showing up on the Join Date line) -C
Yes... in IE it is seeing like that... with not proper alignment of things... shawn - if you are reading... please correct the look and feel of the site in IE also Hope it helps...
Sphinx is an insanely fast search engine. http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ Queries that might take a few minutes to run with the vBulletin search, take ~0.1 seconds (really). I'm working on building a seamless Sphinx integration for vB4, but it's not done yet. Yeah... IE isn't really at the top of the priority list to be honest. If stuff works properly with Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera, I'm not really going to sit down and make a custom version of something just so it works with IE. It should already work, and if Microsoft is too lazy to make a browser work like every other browser, I'm not going to waste my time redeveloping everything for IE. Ultimately the problem is with IE/Microsoft, and making new versions of stuff to patch it's bugs isn't something I'm going to spend much time on.
Thanks! I'll def. be doing that....right now im waiting to upgrade....what version are you on now? Us lazy folks should really upgrade our browsers jk
Can you give any insight as to how far along you've gotten it and whether you plan to make it available for others to download and integrate as well? If you need beta testers, let me know
It's currently indexing everything, but I haven't had time to work on the front-end side of things (the actually searching of those indexes) yet. It's not going to be publicly available.
As an update... I've rolled out the Sphinx search here, so it's running/indexing everything in parallel with the default search system and I have a way to toggle between the two so I can go through and test everything... Things that are seem to be working so far: Indexing... internally managing a delta index that is updated with all changes every 5 minutes. Quick search (the box in the upper right of all pages) Advanced search for posts, blog entries, blog comments, forums, threads, visitor messages Tag searching (for posts and blog entries) Searching for all (or some) posts made by a user Searching for all (or some) threads made by a user Searching just specific forums (and/or sub-forums) Date ranges (for example show posts just from the last week) Sorting works based on relevance, post/thread start date, last post date, number of replies Stuff that I know about that doesn't yet work... Advanced search for social groups and social group messages Searching for threads based on number of replies or prefix Stuff that I know doesn't work (and won't work when it's done)... Ability to sort results by strings (thread title or username) Ability to sort threads in results by number of views The nice thing about it all is that it's blazingly fast... you can run the most complex queries imaginable and it takes a fraction of a second. It also does not need to hit your MySQL databases when running queries so it offloads a ton of overhead from your DB servers. The Sphinx search engine uses pretty much no resources.
It's actually live now for everyone btw... although I haven't officially announced it because still working on a few minor things. But if you do a search, it should be much faster... even if you do idiotic searches (like 10 keywords that exist in millions of posts).
FYI Shawn I switched to Sphinx this week for my 3 million post forum running MyBB. MyBB developer already wrote a very good plugin for it. Took me less than an hour to install Sphinx and configure everything. Server load diminished greatly. I was on the verge of needing a 4th server and Sphinx saved me. I'm thinking I can squeeze 5 million posts now out my current hardware but hard to tell just yet. Sphinx is da bomb. That's all I'm saying.
Yep... Sphinx is super sick and uses a ridiculously low amount of resources. The current machine I have running Sphinx is my dev machine and it's mostly running idle... I'm probably going to move Sphinx to my web server machines and just run it there.