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Apache Solr PHP Integration

By : Jayant Kumar
Book Image

Apache Solr PHP Integration

By: Jayant Kumar

Overview of this book

The Search tool is a very powerful for any website. No matter what type of website, the search tool helps visitors find what they are looking for using key words and narrow down the results using facets. Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. It is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest websites.This book is a practical, hands-on, end-to-end guide that provides you with all the tools required to build a fully-featured search application using Apache Solr and PHP. The book contains practical examples and step-by-step instructions.Starting off with the basics of installing Apache Solr and integrating it with Php, the book then proceeds to explore the features provided by Solr to improve searches using Php. You will learn how to build and maintain a Solr index using Php, discover the query modes available with Solr, and how to use them to tune the Solr queries to retrieve relevant results. You will look at how to build and use facets in your search, how to tune and use fast result highlighting, and how to build a spell check and auto complete feature using Solr. You will finish by learning some of the advanced concepts required to runa large-scale enterprise level search infrastructure.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Apache Solr PHP Integration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Commit, rollback, and index optimization


The commitWithin parameter that we have been passing as arguments to our addDocument() function specifies the time for the commit to happen for this add document operation. This leaves the control of when to do the commit to Solr itself. Solr optimizes the number of commits to a minimum while still fulfilling the update latency requirements.

The rollback option is exposed via the addRollback() function. Rollback can be done since the last commit and before current commit. Once a commit has been done, the changes cannot be rolled back.

$rollbackQuery = $client->createUpdate();
$rollbackQuery->addRollback();

Index optimization is one of the tasks that is not necessarily required. But an optimized index has better performance than a non-optimized index. To optimize an index using the PHP code, we can use the addOptimize(boolean $softCommit, boolean $waitSearcher, int $maxSegments) function. It has parameters to enable soft commit, wait until a new...