Comments on: Geo/Spatial search using Sphinx search and php

By: webpatser

webpatser — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:20:21 +0000

This is correct. Like I replied in the second comment, you need a field with some content, otherwise the result is empty.

This could easily be a fake value. While building the index you can just insert in ‘a’ in a field.

I don’t know when this is fixed.

By: Johni

Johni — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:30:31 +0000

Querying simply id, lat, long results in a empty index when i try this. I fixed it by adding the Field 1 to the field list so it actualy has content to index. It seems it doesn’t count lat and lon as content and thinks the dataset is empty. Has anybody a better solution for this Problem?

By: Bas

Bas — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:40:15 +0000

Does this geodist function search as if it was searching on a globe or is it searching on a flat map?
Or is this a setting?
Can’t find this anywhere.

By: webpatser

webpatser — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:15:30 +0000

Hi Mike,

You can easily sort the results:

Just add

$search->SetSortMode ( SPH_SORT_EXTENDED, "@geodist asc");

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:58:01 +0000

Any tips on sorting by distance? Closest first…

I manged to get this functional in a Codeigniter application I’ve been working on… Just need to figure out the pagination!

Thanks!

By: webpatser

webpatser — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:17:42 +0000

You mean the SetGeoAnchor function? Be sure to really send floats to that function. The sphinxapi.php class is relay strict in variable types.

Also I noticed that if you create an index with only geo data, the search fails. It needs some text field (that is filled on every row), otherwise the search will not return any results. I’ll will update the article with this ‘bug’.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:59:32 +0000

Hi I’m struggling to get this working – my indexes are fine, but for some reason I can’t get it to recognise the GeoAnchor.