README

Sphinx Extension for Yii 2

This extension adds Sphinx full text search engine extension for the Yii framework 2.0. It supports all Sphinx features including Real-time Indexes.

For license information check the LICENSE-file.

Documentation is at docs/guide/README.md.

Requirements

At least Sphinx version 2.0 is required. However, in order to use all extension features, Sphinx version 2.2.3 or higher is required.

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-sphinx

or add

"yiisoft/yii2-sphinx": "~2.0.0"

to the require section of your composer.json.

Configuration

This extension interacts with Sphinx search daemon using MySQL protocol and SphinxQL query language. In order to setup Sphinx "searchd" to support MySQL protocol following configuration should be added:

searchd
{
    listen = localhost:9306:mysql41
    ...
}

To use this extension, simply add the following code in your application configuration:

return [
    //....
    'components' => [
        'sphinx' => [
            'class' => 'yii\sphinx\Connection',
            'dsn' => 'mysql:host=127.0.0.1;port=9306;',
            'username' => '',
            'password' => '',
        ],
    ],
];