Getting Started with Zend_Search_Lucene. Supported queries | | |
Zend_Search_Lucene and Java Lucene support a powerful query language. It allows searching for individual terms, phrases, ranges of terms; using wildcards and fuzzy search; combining queries using boolean operators; and so on. | | |
A detailed query language description can be found in the Zend_Search_Lucene component documentation. | | |
What follows are examples of some common query types and strategies. | | |
Example #1 Querying for a single word | | |
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Searches for the word "hello" through all document fields. | | |
Note: Default search field | | |
Important note! Java Lucene searches only through the "contents" field by default, but Zend_Search_Lucene searches through all fields. This behavior can be modified using the Zend_Search_Lucene::setDefaultSearchField($fieldName) method. <br /> | | |
Example #2 Querying for multiple words | | |
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Searches for two words. Both words are optional; at least one of them must be present in the result. | | |
Example #3 Requiring words in a query | | |
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Searches for two words; "hello" is required, "dolly" is optional. | | |
Example #4 Prohibiting words in queried documents | | |
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Searches for two words; "hello" is required, 'dolly' is prohibited. In other words, if the document matches "hello", but contains the word "dolly", it will not be returned in the set of matches. | | |
Example #5 Querying for phrases | | |
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Searches for the phrase "hello dolly"; a document only matches if that exact string is present. | | |
Example #6 Querying against specific fields | | |
01. title:"The Right Way" AND text:go | | |
Searches for the phrase "The Right Way" within the title field and the word "go" within the text field. | | |
Example #7 Querying against specific fields as well as the entire document | | |
01. title:"The Right Way" AND go | | |
Searches for the phrase "The Right Way" within the title field and the word "go" word appearing in any field of the document. | | |
Example #8 Querying against specific fields as well as the entire document (alternate) | | |