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Apache Solr PHP Integration

By : Jayant Kumar
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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

Executing debug through PHP code


To enable debugging of our Solr query using PHP, we need to get the debug component from our query.

In addition to getting debug information of the default query, we can call the explainOther() function to get a score of certain documents that match the query specified in explainOther() function with respect to the main query as shown in the following query:

  $query->setQuery('cat:book OR author:martin^2');
  $debugq = $query->getDebug();
  $debugq->setExplainOther('author:king');

In the preceding piece of code, we are searching for all books and boosting books by author martin by 2. In addition to this we are getting the debug information for books by author king.

After running the query, we need to get the debug component from the ResultSet. We then use it to get the query string, parsed query string, the query parser and information about the debug other query as shown in the following code:

  echo 'Querystring: ' . $dResultSet->getQueryString...