Laravel Scout Sphinx Driver

Installation

Composer

Use the following command to install package via composer

composer require larva/laravel-scout-sphinxsearch

Configuration

Publish the Scout configuration using the vendor:publish Artisan command.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel\Scout\ScoutServiceProvider"

This command will publish the scout.php configuration file to your config directory. Edit this file to set 'sphinxsearch' as a Scout driver:

'driver' => env('SCOUT_DRIVER', 'sphinxsearch'),

And add default Sphinx connection options

    'sphinxsearch' => [
        'host' => env('SPHINX_HOST', 'localhost'),
        'port' => env('SPHINX_PORT', '9306'),
        'socket' => env('SPHINX_SOCKET'),
        'charset' => env('SPHINX_CHARSET'),
    ],

Override these variables in your .env file if need.

Usage

• Add the Laravel\Scout\Searchable trait to the model you would like to make searchable.
• Customize index name and searchable data for the model:

    public function searchableAs()
    {
        return 'posts_index';
    }
    
    public function toSearchableArray()
    {
        $array = $this->toArray();

        // Customize array...

        return $array;
    }

The basic search:

$orders = App\Order::search('Star Trek')->get();

Please refer to the Scout documentation for additional information. You can run more complex queries on index using callback, set the where clause, orderBy or paginate, for example:

$oorders = App\Order::search($keyword, function (SphinxQL $query) {
        return $query->groupBy('description');
    })            
    ->where('status', 1)
    ->orderBy('date', 'DESC')
    ->paginate(20);

Note: Changes on Sphinx indexes are only allowed for RT (Real Time) indexes. If you have ones and you need to update/delete records please define public $isRT = true; model's property.