Installation ¶

Requirements ¶

At least Sphinx version 2.0 is required. However, in order to use all extension features, Sphinx version 2.2 or higher is required.

Getting Composer package ¶

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-sphinx

or add

"yiisoft/yii2-sphinx": "~2.0.0"

to the require section of your composer.json.

Configuration ¶

This extension interacts with Sphinx search daemon using MySQL protocol and SphinxQL query language. In order to setup Sphinx "searchd" to support MySQL protocol following configuration should be added:

searchd
{
    listen = localhost:9306:mysql41
    ...
}

To use this extension, simply add the following code in your application configuration:

return [
    //....
    'components' => [
        'sphinx' => [
            'class' => 'yii\sphinx\Connection',
            'dsn' => 'mysql:host=127.0.0.1;port=9306;',
            'username' => '',
            'password' => '',
        ],
    ],
];