[Typo3-dev] indexed_search - Performance Issue Questions

[Kasper Skårhøj]

> Well, yes and no. We have one XHTML site where the indexer indexes fine,
> but html comments only, for no apparent reason. TYPO3SEARCH markers, TS
> config settings, etc. are all in place and setup like on other (working)
> projects. Didn't investigate further on the behaviour of this specific
> installation, because we need some additional features.

This is called a bug. Bugs are reported to the stucki-police. They shouldn't make you flee the country. :-)


> If it was only because of the above things, alright. I think Bernhard
> (?) did some improvements on the preg_match stuff, didn't he (or someone
> else, can't remember). But there's more features requested by this
> particular customer, for example "one index for different TYPO3
> instances", to be able to have a company-wide search index that spans
> across multiple websites (T3/non-T3).
>
> In short: an external opensource alternative would be fine for certain
> setups.


So: It wasn't your real reasons then. That is completely fair, but more informative.

> I just had a phone call with Andreas Dolleschal/developer.at who
> implemented a frontend plugin to search the mnoGoSearch index. I'll
> discuss this further with Georg and Andreas and we'll see how much
> work/sponsoring needs to be put into developer.at's plugin solution.

great.

In fact, I support very much alternative search solutions like a frontend for mnoGoSearch as long as they are complementary to our own indexed search. Indexed Search is not aimed at being everything for every project.

 kasper