Use Lucene in PHP

I'm wondering how can I use Lucene for searching and indexing with PHP, Google said that I can do so just if It will be through Zend framework, this latter unlikely does not present in my dictionary, I use standard PHP, can I use Zend just for get Lucene work on my site for indexing my e-books? I'm using Netbeans 6.8 for information, and I found this word 'Zend' (all what I know about is his name ^^) in somewhere on Netbeans options. Really can't understand what some sites suggest, please help! and give me the simplest way to get started and then I'll take the wheel! Than开发者_JAVA技巧ks in advance, Regards!

Solr has a REST API which could be used from PHP, or any language for that matter.

Either use Sphinx or Lucene/Solr directly. Zend_Lucence works OK for small projects, but is not as fast as Sphinx or Solr.