We are building a Social Networking website and there are videos, user profiles and other details on the site. The site is developed using Zend Framework. It needs to develop a Site Search Engine feature on this site. It need to index all data in the website and search against that data.
I checked Sphider but it is not easy to use in Zend Framework. And I tried Sphinx but that needs lot of configuration from Terminal. Next I tried is Zend Lucene Component and it works. But I couldn't display the Videos or Profile Image on the result set.
Please suggest an easy but powerful method to build a Custom Search Engine inside website built on Zend Framework.
You should have a look at setting up a Solr search server. It is a Lucene implementation, but scales incredibly well. From my understanding Zend's Lucene implementation, while good for small amounts of data, does not scale well.
There is also a PECL Solr extension for easy access from PHP, regardless of framework.