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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 4. Advanced Queries – Filter Queries and Faceting

This chapter starts by defining filter queries and their benefits compared to the normal search queries that we have used earlier. We will see how we can use filter queries in Solr with PHP and the Solarium library. We will then explore faceting in Solr. We will also see how PHP can be used to facet in Solr. We will explore faceting by field, faceting by query, and faceting by range. We will also look at faceting by using pivots. The topics that will be covered are as follows:

  • Filter queries and their benefits

  • Executing filter queries using PHP and Solarium

  • Creating a filter query configuration

  • Faceting

  • Faceting by field, query, and range

  • Faceting pivots