[Xapian-discuss] advanced sorting suggestions

[James Cauwelier]

Hi,


Let me first describe my problem:

PROBLEM

  - I want to query Xapian (no problem here)
  - I want to sort by some other relevance, namely by popularity of  
the document relative to this search query.  I want the sort order to  
be influenced by clicking patterns after a query has been executed.   
If a search for 'tomato' gives a set of results and 90% of the users  
click on the third result, then I want to move this document to the  
top of the result set.  I would need a logger, which records this  
behavior, but I would also need to sort by generated key, if I am not  
mistaken.  As a default, I would like to fall back to the default  
relevance sorting of Xapian.

I am a PHP programmer and that 's pretty much all I do (I 've done  
some perl programming in the past too), so I think I am way over my  
head with this.


MY QUESTION

Can I do the subclassing Xapian::Sorter as suggested in the  
documentation in PHP?  Or do I need to learn C++? Has this already  
been done before in an open source and free solution?  I do not want  
to reinvent the wheel...


Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer this question.  I  
appreciate it.



James