sphinx returns only the document ids and you have to query the mysql table to get the full row.

I am a newbie to Sphinx and apologize if you find my question too trivial.

I have plaintext files, say, doc1.txt, doc2.txt, etc. which contain unstructured text (may be log messages, writings from various contributors, etc). I want to be able to search through them using Sphinx. I understood some concepts from your nice article, but I am not able to figure out how to get these files into the Mysql database. If you don't mind, can you please tell me in a few concise steps on how to get this going and configure the sphinx.conf file?

Thanks a lot in advance !

Sesh

i did all the things above and can get results from simple query, problem is that sphinx only return the doc id just like your example above.
how can i get the full column data like when i did with mysql?

many thanks in advance,
dwi