Basically the script will ensure all your settings are valid before it'll work. The settings are all in _login_users.php

You have to conform to the comments I have there. And user names can only be alphanumeric with no whitespace (hyphen and underscore is ok).

Whenever I go to the index.php it tell me that the admin settings are wrong, I know that the code for that is on page _login.php but how to I get a login form?

session_start();
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); #Date in the Past
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); #Always modified
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"); #HTTP/1.1
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache"); #HTTP/1.0
require_once('_login.php');
if (!$login->verify_login($key_uid, $key_cid)) {
  header("Location: login.php");
  exit();
}

The first five headers avoid that another user that have the same session opened backs to previous page and posts again… the if statement verify if the user has logged in or not

Thanks again!!!

It may make more sense that way. Here's a good way to look at it, Sphinx does the hardest part efficiently and accurately for you which is the matching part with out you worrying about the Like, Match or what-so-ever.

By returning just the ID there are a few advantages.

1. Querying by ID is quick and painless because IDs are indexed and unique.
2. By just having the ID you can customize the columns you want to query.

If you had a table with 20 columns (which is not the best practice) sphinx would return all 20 columns, but maybe in your search you only need 5 columns, until the drill down page. You can completely customize it.

3. Making additional joins or unions easier.

I had the same though you did, but after using the system a bit it made sense.

Jerry

"The $result returned will not include the rows and columns of your actual table. "

So you get the id's and after you do a usual query to mysql… Why that? What is the advantages of this approach? Wouldnt be faster return the wole data from sphinx reather than just the id? Im just wondering why…

"failed to send client protocol version".

I found the solution for that in sphinx forum here:

http://sphinxsearch.com/forum/view.html?id=4919

I just changed the line in php script and sphinx started to return my data:

The file sphinxapi.php
replaced by line
if ( !$this->_Send ( $fp, pack ( "N", 1 ), 4 ) )
to line
if (fwrite ( $fp, pack ( "N", 1 ), 4 ) !== 4)

Some people said it was a problem in the version 5.2 of php but it is not. I just don't know why this issue, because I downloaded the last version from sphinx website. But but is working now.