[wp-hackers] Search API and Sphinx

[Andy Skelton]

> I haven't seen much talk about the search API [1]. It looks like it's
> going to be integrated into the core in 3.0 [2]. Is that going to make
> it into the release? If so, does anyone know if the Sphinx plugin [3]
> is going to work with it?

The search API project did not make it into 3.0. However, a new filter
introduced in 3.0 made it easier to plug in other search systems: the
posts_search filter in wp_query::get_posts.

An example using this new filter to implement fulltext is here:
http://skeltoac.com/fulltext.php.txt

I don't have any plans to update the Sphinx plugin to work this way.

Andy