Search

Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine that utilizes an open, binary format for storing search indexes and a standardized query format for querying against the indexes. Lucene was originally written in Java as part of the Apache project. Zend_Search_Lucene is a PHP implementation that provides full binary compatibility with Java Lucene.

Yes! In fact, the Zend Framework site uses Zend_Search_Lucene with indexes created by our Java developer tools to provide site-wide search.

Yes! We regularly use Luke to inspect our Zend_Search_Lucene-generated indexes for development and diagnosis purposes.