API ports and alternatives

Official APIs for PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, and pure C are included in Sphinx distribution. But there are a few alternative implementations:

• PHP API alternative, PECL PHP API port, by Tony Dovgal
• Ruby API alternative, Riddle, Ruby API port by Pat Allan

Community API ports:

• Perl API port, Sphinx::Search, by Jon Schutz
• C++ API port, C++ Sphinx client, by Seznam.cz
• Haskell API port, Haskell Sphinx client, by Tupil
• C# API port, C# .NET client, by Christopher Gooley

Community binary packages

• OpenBSD port, by Rama McIntosh
• Unofficial Debian/Ubuntu packages

Plugins and extensions

• Drupal module, by Johannes Wehner
• Drupal module, by Markus Petrux (README)
• Symfony plugin
• phpBB plugin, by Nils Adermann
• MovableType pulgin, by Apperceptive LLC
• MediaWiki extension, by Paul Grinberg
• Phorum search module, by Thomas Seifert
• Thinking Sphinx, Rails plugin by Pat Allan
• Ultrasphinx, Rails plugin by Evan Weaver
• Sphincter, ActiveRecord extension using Dmytro's API
• acts_as_sphinx, Rails plugin by Kent Sibilev
• fSphinx, a Python module that simplifies handling faceted searches by Alex Ksikes