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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

About the Reviewers

Renoir Boulanger is an application developer fascinated with web standards. He has been developing websites and web applications in PHP for over 10 years. His experience includes server management and web development for several communications agencies in the province of Quebec. He has created web integration libraries, and participated in the development of various specialized web applications, some of which were for big-name clients such as the W3C, Ericsson, Telefilm Canada, and the Union des Artistes du Québec.

Renoir's involvement in the W3C is as a member of developer relations and system teams, mainly contributing to the WebPlatform Docs (http://webplatform.org/) project to maintain the site stability, improve the site features, strengthen the hosting, and deployment infrastructure, act as a technical liaison with open source communities, and contribute to the success of the site.

In addition to having an easily identifiable name on the web, he can be found as @renoirb or at https://renoirboulanger.com/#is.

Ruben Teijeiro is an experienced frontend and backend web developer and has worked with several PHP frameworks for over a decade. His expertise is focused now on Drupal with which he has collaborated in the development of several projects for important companies such as Unicef and Telefonica in Spain and Ericsson in Sweden.

As an active member of the Drupal community you can find him contributing to Drupal Core, helping and mentoring other contributors, and speaking at Drupal events around the world. He also loves to share what he has learned on his blog at http://drewpull.com.