Spotlight search with PHP
- by htf
Hi. I want to add a spotlight search functionality - search results being displayed with rich contents like thumbnail etc in a drop down menu changing on each keyup event - just like the apple.com search - to a site, having data in MySQL InnoDB tables.
The data is spread into separate tables for categories, help pages, blog pages and so on. The search script must take into account just a subset of columns.
Since it seems to be a popular demand, I guess there are some PHP search engine projects (preferably open-source and with memcached support), which could be integrated into the existing system on the basis of regular exports of relevant data from the working db/tables.
Are there any solutions out there? Which one would you recommend? Or maybe it would be better to implement it the other way around?
Thanks