All networks with a Pay to Play Plan have a SphinxSearch fulltext search engine embedded. Whenever you search using an API function you can call all kinds of advanced queries.
Usage Examples
For a full list of available options browse the SphinxSearch Documentation
Boolean queries
There always is implicit AND operator, so "hello world" query actually means "hello & world".
OR operator precedence is higher than AND, so "looking for cat | dog | mouse" means "looking for ( cat | dog | mouse )" and not "(looking for cat) | dog | mouse".
Queries like "-dog", which implicitly include all documents from the collection, can not be evaluated. This is both for technical and performance reasons.
Extended Queries
The following special operators and modifiers can be used when using the extended matching mode:
- operator OR:
hello | world
- operator NOT:
hello -world
hello !world
- field search operator:
@title hello @body world
- field position limit modifier:
@body[50] hello
- multiple-field search operator:
@(title,body) hello world
- all-field search operator:
@* hello
- phrase search operator:
"hello world"
- proximity search operator:
"hello world"~10
- quorum matching operator:
"the world is a wonderful place"/3
- strict order operator (aka operator "before"):
aaa << bbb << ccc
- exact form modifier
raining =cats and =dogs
- field-start and field-end modifier
^hello world$
