Search Engine Configuration

The extension provides three options, include: My SQL, Sphinx Engine and Built-in Sphinx Engine. Admin will pick one of them to make as default. 

We recommend that you should choose the option named Sphinx Engine.  

 Host Configuration

At Host configuration drop-down list, there are some fields admin need to set, includes:

+ Sphinx Host: localhost (Default).

+ Sphinx Post: 9315 (Default).

+ Sphinx Bin Path: searchd (Default). 

+ Restart Sphinx Daemon: In the first use, admins will need to click on Restart Sphinx Daemon button to start using. A notification will be shown to inform you that Sphinx Daemon works successfully. 

+ Check connection status: Then click on Restart Sphinx Daemon button, admin will need to check connection status by clicking on Check Connection Status button. A notification will be shown to inform you that Sphinx search extension and your store have connected successfully together. 

+ Reset: Admin will click on the Reset button if they want to make all of things to the original status. 

Additional Configuration 

If admins have knowledge about the Sphinx platform, they can type text in HTML format as their wish.     

 Search Settings

+ Wildcard search: There are 4 options enabled: 

 Enabled (*word*) - This option allows to find  products and show them in the search results if the search phrase is contained in the beginning, end or in the middle of the product. 

Example: If the search query is "age", search results can be: "agent", "Magenest" and "image". 

 Enabled at end (word*): This option allows to find products which only start by the search phrase.  

Example: If the search query is "age", search results can be: "agent" or "agency", but not: "image" or "Magenest". 

 Enabled at start (*word): This option allows to find products which only end by the search phrase.    

Example: If the search query is "age", search results can be: "image" or "Sage", but not "Magenest" or "agent".              

 Disabled: This option allows to show all search results exactly as the search phrase. 

Example:If the search query is "age", search result can be only for "age", but not for "agent" or "Magenest" or "image"

+ Result Limit: The sad

+ Wildcard Exceptions: The list of words (characters) for which no wildcard rules will be applied.

Example:

If Wildcard search is enabled, when customers search query 'Extension' then the search results will also return products with "Extensions" word. If admins add 'Extension' to exceptions list, search will return only 'Extension' results.

If admin want to add more words into Wildcard Exception, admins only click on Add button to add. 

+ Replace words in search query.

The words from the left column will be replaced by words from the right column. 

Example:

If admin add the word 

You have a record 'notebook, computer' => 'laptop'. Search phrases 'asus notebook' and 'asus computer' will be modified to 'asus laptop'. Search will be done by modified phrase.

+ Long Tail Expressions.

• Stopwords

 Go to Magenest Sphinx > Stopwords. Then a Stopword page will be shown allowing admins to add stopwords into database.

Stopwords are words which are not really useful for search because they have little lexical meaning or ambiguous meaning. The system will be removed these words from the search query automatically. 

 Example:
If the search phrase is " a laptop", the system will be removed "a" from the search phrase. "laptop" is really the searched word (not "a laptop").      

  Add New Stopword

To add a new stopword into database, please click on Add New Stopword button.

Then a

• Synonyms

 Go to Magenest Sphinx > Synonyms.

Synonyms are words which have the same or nearly the same meaning in the same language. When a word added into e. This feature allows customers to find both the search phrase entered and its synonyms. 

 Add a new synonym

In order to add a new synonym, please click on Add New Synonym button. Then a New term page will be shown which allows admins to add manually a word with its corresponding synonyms according to the store owner's wish.

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There are three fields to be set:

  Term: The original word.

  Synonyms:  The list of replacing synonyms (use comma as separator).

 Store: Default Store View. 
This feature allows customers to find both the search phrase entered and its synonyms. 

 Example: 

The search phase is "Big". The search results will show all products regarding both "Big" and "Large".

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This feature is very smart! It allows searching not only by query the user entered in search string, but also by its synonyms.

Synonyms Dictionary contains 60730 words. It makes Sphinx almost an artificial intelligence search engine!