These samples illustrate faceting using Sphinx search.
Sphinx querying is made via SphinxQL using PDO driver.
LAMP
Sphinx search ( recommended 2.1.1 or higher)
PHP with PDO mysql
Please note that the code is made for 2.1.1. The code use LIKE operator on SHOW META.
For older versions, use only SHOW META, fetch all rows and lookup for the row that has the 'total_found'.
Edit scripts/sphinx.conf for setting proper paths and db credentials
The example use a single RealTime index which can be generated using filldb.php script.
Start searchd first with
$ searchd -c /path/to/sphinx.conf
Generate the RT index
$ php filldb.php
Sphinx Samples is free software, and is released under the terms of the GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
Sphinx website : http://sphinxsearch.com/
Sphinx read-only repository :https://code.google.com/p/sphinxsearch/