Zend_Search_Lucene

[sde]

Anyone using the Zend Framework? .. specifically the Zend_Search_Lucene library?

It's pretty damn cool to be able to add a search engine to any site so easy but I can't figure out one thing regarding the search.

To search within a category, you should be able to use this syntax:

title:foo

It works fine with a string, but not with numbers. I've tried quotes around the numbers too. Just doesn't work, i.e. I get no results even though the category definitely is indexed with the numbers I'm searching for.

Probably a long shot but I thought I'd ask, or at least let other's know how easy it is to add a search engine with this library.

Zend Framework: Documentation

Here's the site I made with it. It is US Federal Aviation Regulation: FAR DB

[teknomage1]

Here's some stuff for the java lucene faq that seem promising:

Originally Posted by java lucene docs

• The term is in a field that was not tokenized during indexing and therefore, the entire content of the field was considered as a single term. Re-index the documents and make sure the field is tokenized.
• The term you are searching is a stop word that was dropped by the analyzer you use. For example, if your analyzer uses the StopFilter, a search for the word 'the' will always fail (i.e. produce no hits).

Maybe there's a stop filter on numeric stings? Or maybe the normalizer is dropping numeric strings from the title index.

[sde]

Or maybe the normalizer is dropping numeric strings from the title index.

hmm .. that makes the most sense to me. so maybe if i index that field as 'part 91' instead of just 91. that gives me something to work with, thanks!

[DJMaze]

Always funny those "smart" search tools. No wonder i wrote my own for unicode