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.

Jayant Kumar

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Paperback Nov 2013 118 pages 1st Edition

Jayant Kumar

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Understand the tools that can be used to communicate between PHP and Solr, and how they work internally
Explore the essential search functions of Solr such as sorting, boosting, faceting, and highlighting using your PHP code
Take a look at some advanced features of Solr such as spell checking, grouping, and auto complete with implementations using PHP code

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

If you are a developer who knows PHP and is interested in integrating search into your applications, this is the book for you. No advanced knowledge of Solr is required. Very basic knowledge of system commands and the command-line interface on both Linux and Windows is required. You should also be familiar with the concept of Web servers.

What you will learn

Install Solr and integrate it with PHP
Insert, update, and delete documents from the Solr index using PHP
Perform select queries using the dismax and edismax query modes
Sort, boost, and re-use select queries using PHP
Employ faceting and result highlighting
Debug and fine-tune Solr search queries for relevance
Implement the spell checker and auto complete features using Solr and PHP
Search for documents similar to a particular document and Retrieve index stats using PHP
Deploy distributed searching using sharing and load-balancing of Solr queries

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James Hollenbeck Jan 29, 2014

"Apache Solr PHP Integration" is a great resource for hitting the ground running when you are bound to the fast-paced environment of large-scale PHP application design and big-data search. As usual with Packt books, it is great to see the expected ease-of-install directions, telling you what you need to get started, and enough to get the a full-featured launch off the ground.In just a few short pages, you will have a fully functioning Jetty and/or Tomcat Solr solution that is sure to meet both personal and commercial needs. Next, the choice to use Solarium and Composer is a perfect marriage to introduce where resource management is going and how to keep up with the times.Lastly, and most importantly, this book will give you the perfect foundation you will need to get fully search-able instances of Solr running while using PHP-Solarium with both simple and advanced queries - allowing you to become a great asset to any company dealing with large, search-able data sets.

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Chris Pitt Jan 30, 2014

Solr can sometimes feel more prickly than a bag of porcupines. That’s when you need this book.First, and least important, is that there is no syntax highlighting. I say this every time I review a Packt book, and it’s always as annoying to find.That aside, this book is well edited. The points are succinct, the grammar palatable and the diction easy to follow.The book begins with some installation instructions for getting PHP and Solr running. I was at first concerned with the presentation of numerous ways to query the same result, few of which concerned PHP examples, but that quickly passed as the book develops into a handbook for the well-supported PHP library Solarium.At only 118 pages, I feel it would reach a wider audience by including Solarium in the title, but that’s up to the marketing department I guess…The content ranges, in difficulty, from the basics of Solr usage to advanced querying and formatting. Along the way, you can learn about how indexing and schemas work in Solr. The book demonstrates every aspect of Solr which it explains, in simple PHP examples.Unlike most books, the length and presentation of this book allow you to go through it all in a single sitting. It may take a bit longer if you are only first coming into contact with Solr, but every bit of help is provided to get you familiar with how things work.My experiences with Solr have not always been good, and I would have loved to get my hands on this book in those times. Instead of prattling on about how much I enjoyed it, I recommend you get it for yourself. After all, it costs about the same as a good pizza.

Kwabena Boadu Mar 04, 2014

Really good book for both beginners and experts in PHP development interested in integrating Apache Solr into their existing PHP applications

Evgeny Feb 04, 2014

This book covers the basics of integrating PHP applications with Apache Solr. I definitely like how along with the usual examples one would expect from a book like this the author also introduces the reader to tools like Composer and Solarium - definitely a good way to encourage best practices. Not to diminish the importance of examples for common scenarios that could be copied and pasted pretty much as is in order to give one's PHP and Solr setup a whirl.Overall definitely a good read for those starting out with Solr.

Marc Franz Neininger Dec 09, 2014

Das Buch ist nicht ausführlich genug. Mit der Dokumentation und den mitgelieferten Beispielen ist man genauso schnell und deutlich billiger

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