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Apache Solr PHP Integration

You're reading from   Apache Solr PHP Integration Build a fully-featured and scalable search application using PHP to unlock the search functions provided by Solr with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782164920
Length 118 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jayant Kumar Jayant Kumar
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Apache Solr PHP Integration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Installing and Integrating Solr and PHP FREE CHAPTER 2. Inserting, Updating, and Deleting Documents from Solr 3. Select Query on Solr and Query Modes (DisMax/eDisMax) 4. Advanced Queries – Filter Queries and Faceting 5. Highlighting Results Using PHP and Solr 6. Debug and Stats Component 7. Spell Check in Solr 8. Advanced Solr – Grouping, the MoreLikeThis Query, and Distributed Search Index

Running more like this query using PHP


More like this feature of Solr can be used to construct a query based on the terms within a document. This feature helps us in retrieving documents similar to those in our query results. We have to specify the fields on which the more like this functionality is run. For efficiency purposes, it is recommended that we have termVectors=true for these fields. Let us understand how this functionality works by looking at an example. Suppose we want books that are similar to those appearing in the result. Similarity of books is derived from the author and the series to which they belong. So we would have to tell Solr to get books similar to the currently selected book based on the fields' author and series. Solr (Lucene) internally compares all the tokens within the specified fields in all documents (books in our case) in the index with the fields of the currently selected book. And based on how many tokens are matching, it retrieves the results and ranks...

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