Class yii\sphinx\Connection

Connection represents the Sphinx connection via MySQL protocol.

This class uses PDO to maintain such connection. Note: although PDO supports numerous database drivers, this class supports only MySQL.

In order to setup Sphinx "searchd" to support MySQL protocol following configuration should be added:

searchd
{
    listen = localhost:9306:mysql41
    ...
}

The following example shows how to create a Connection instance and establish the Sphinx connection:

$connection = new \yii\db\Connection([
    'dsn' => 'mysql:host=127.0.0.1;port=9306;',
    'username' => $username,
    'password' => $password,
]);
$connection->open();

After the Sphinx connection is established, one can execute SQL statements like the following:

$command = $connection->createCommand("SELECT * FROM idx_article WHERE MATCH('programming')");
$articles = $command->queryAll();
$command = $connection->createCommand('UPDATE idx_article SET status=2 WHERE id=1');
$command->execute();

For more information about how to perform various DB queries, please refer to yii\sphinx\Command.

This class supports transactions exactly as "yii\db\Connection".

Note: while this class extends "yii\db\Connection" some of its methods are not supported.