Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

Re:Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, n... by captn3m0 on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @06:08PM (#48042553)

Zend used to maintain a PHP port of Lucene 15 years ago that I used, but not sure what happened to it.

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Re:Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, n... by asmodios on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @06:46PM (#48042900)

Yes, Zend_Search_Lucene was dropped from Zend Framework 2 and never officially maintained for modern PHP. There's a community fork.

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Re:Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, n... by trog on Thursday May 07, 2026 @12:56AM (#48045540)

Any idea if it's any good? I used the old Lucene implementation ages ago and thought it was OK, though wasn't using it in a big way.

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Re:Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, n... by asmodios on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:48PM (#48053982)

The zf1s/zend-search-lucene fork still works and gets occasional updates, but it's essentially legacy maintenance on a PHP 5.3-era codebase. It crashed on PHP 7 for a while, and the original ZF team themselves recommended moving on.

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