I have finished writing my own web application now. It is written in PHP with MYSQL DB and I did not use any MVC framework at all. Now I want to add a local search functionality for my app and from looking at the other posts here, Zend_Search_Lucene seems to be a good option for me.
Now if I want to use Zend_Search_Lucene do I have to install the whole Zend framework then re-write my app and adapt them into its MVC framework ?
I am looking to use just the search feature of the framework, and right now I probably do not really mind installing the whole framework, but I surely do if I have to make large-scale changes to my app..
appreciate any answer-suggestion, thx
You can just use the Zend_Search_Lucene package, you don't need to use the whole framework and/or MVC aspect of it. If you don't want to install the whole framework, you have to check package dependencies that Zend_Search_Lucene has. There are some automatic ways of doing this, here are some:
If you google it you'll sure find more.
For the answer to the question: no, you won't have to change it, you may use Zend Framework libraries independently.
I won't give you any tutorials on Lucene, though.