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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

Chapter 1. Installing and Integrating Solr and PHP

Are you a PHP programmer? Do you feel the need to incorporate search in your applications? Are you aware of Apache Solr? Do you feel it is a very tedious job to integrate Solr into your PHP applications? This book will make the integration easy for you. We will be looking at an end-to-end integration of Apache Solr with PHP. We will start with Solr installation. We will look at how Solr can be integrated with PHP. We will then explore the features provided by Solr through PHP code. After going through the book, you should be able to integrate almost all features provided by Solr into your PHP applications.

This chapter will help us in installing Apache Solr in two major environments: Windows and Linux. We will also go ahead and explore installation of Solr as part of Apache Tomcat Server. We will discuss the options available for talking to Solr via PHP and also learn how to set up the Solarium library for Solr PHP integration.

We will be covering the following topics in this chapter:

  • What is Solr?

  • Downloading and installing Solr on Windows and Linux

  • Configuring Tomcat to run Solr.

  • Executing ping queries on Solr using PHP

  • Discussing different libraries for Solr PHP integration

  • Installing Solarium on Windows and Linux

  • Connecting PHP to Solr using Solarium

  • Running ping queries using PHP and Solarium

  • Checking Solr logs