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Improved Search with Apache Solr!

Submitted by Ryan on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 14:52.

Here's an announcement everyone who uses this site can appreciate... we now have a vastly improved search system courtesy of Mike O'Connor who took the time during and after Ubercamp to install and configure Apache Solr. This provides much faster searching and a few very handy blocks that let you sort and filter your search results!

  • Sort results based on node title, author, and date.
  • Filter results by forum so you can search specifically the support forum if you're trying to find the answer to a question.
  • Filter results by contribution type or category if you're trying to find a module for a specific purpose.
  • Filter by author to find a year-old post that you're pretty sure torgosPizza made but you can't remember when... Eye-wink
  • Filter by content type to search just forum posts, issues, contributions, etc.

So, fast faceted searching and no more duplicate results... Woohoo! Laughing out loud

A big thank you to Mike O'Connor for the hours he spent getting this all together and of course to Robert Douglass for making it all possible through his contributions.

Mike blogged about the setup if you're interested to know more. He's also cooking up an integration of Ubercart with Solr that would bring these rockin' faceted search features to a store catalog near you. (Anyone up for an open source NewEgg?) Keep an eye on that project. Cool
#1Submitted by himagarwal on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 18:09.

Re: Improved Search with Apache Solr!

I'm still looking for search where an image is generated (if available) besides title and description. Can be very handy for large websites.

#2Submitted by mikejoconnor on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 11:39.

Theming Search

himagarwai,

You can just change your search result theme to include an image. Check out the Customized search results page on drupal.org, it should be pretty simple. One benifit of Solr is it can cache your search result teaser, so drupal doesn't have to build the teaser for each result.

#3Submitted by himagarwal on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 18:03.

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mikejoconnor,

Thank you for the link and great contribution to the ubercart team.

I have a bit doubt on how to proceed for the best result.

1. Can apachesolr + faceted_search + CCK facets + apachesolr_ubercart be integrated all at once?

2. As I came to know from customized search results that it can only be integrated in the core search.module and since I want to try apachesolr_ubercart, which sounds pretty koooooooooool, how should I proceed?

3. It would be AWESOME if thumbnail image, tile and teasar gets added to apachesolr_ubercart.

#4Submitted by echosoft on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 09:38.

Need java runtime?

I want to know if it need jdk/jre on server?

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#5Submitted by mikejoconnor on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 12:48.

Java Requirments

I believe I am using JDK.