April 7, 2016
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Topics:
- Core search
- What is Solr
- How does Solr work
- Benefits of using Solr
- Features of Solr
Modules:
Search API - https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api
Search API Solr Search - https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_solr
Search Pages - https://www.drupal.org/node/1255226
Custom Search - https://www.drupal.org/project/custom_search
Facet API - https://www.drupal.org/project/facetapi
Search API Page - https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_page
Search API Autocomplete - https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_autocomplete
ApacheSolr - https://www.drupal.org/project/apachesolr
Resources:
Setting up Solar - https://www.drupal.org/node/1999310
Apache Solr - http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
Rubber Duck Debugging - http://www.rubberduckdebugging.com/
Views Help Text Bug (Patch #36) - https://www.drupal.org/node/339384
Open Solr - https://opensolr.com/
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Comments
César Castillo replied on Permalink
Hi guys, excellent podcast! I just wanted to mention a couple of things:
If you want to use Solr with views, you need to create a view that shows index results instead of content, so you need to plan that on advance otherwise if you want to switch to use solr in your view, you need to rebuild the view.
Also you can use a ton of configuration from Search API and just hitting your db instead of an index for solr, it's not as performant but it may be a good solution for certain scenarios, even drupal.org uses it.
If you are using d7 you'll also need https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_db
Stephen Cross replied on Permalink
Cesar - thanks for input!
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