TYPO3 & Apache SOLRTomasz Grzemski

Who I am?

Tomasz Grzemski

Web Applications enthusiast

Proud father

Macopedia co-founder

Open-source Educator

Macopedia

Web Applications specialists

Open-Source and Scrum Lovers

3 Offices in Poland (Poznan, Warsaw, Cracow)

17 employees

Do it with PHP?

Search using PHP&MySQL - SLOW!Spelling correction with PHP&MySQL - SLOWER!

Auto-suggestion on big index with PHP&MySQL - Can it kill a web application?

Introduction to Apache SOLR

It is a search platform!

It is based on Lucene. It’s a Java application run on for example Tomcat/Jett

It is based on documents (no relations)!

Configuration based on schema!

PHP & Java

PHP & Java

Communication based on REST-like API

Results in XML & JSON

Use Solr-php-client library (http://code.google.com/p/solr-php-client/)

Create indexer for website

Implement operations: Querying, adding/updating/deleteing documents

PHP side

PHP & Java

Install SOLR

Configure SOLR on Jetty/Tomcat

Create cores for each index (multi language == multi core)

Create schema for each core

Java side

Do it in way?

EXT:solr

How it works?

TypoScript!

How to start?

git://git.typo3.org/TYPO3v4/Extensions/solr.git

Bash install tool for SOLRresources / shell / install-solr.sh

Automatic installation of SOLR on Tomcat

Create Cores for specified language

Runs the server

http://serwer:8080/solr/core_en/admin/

EXT:solr

Configure extensionext:solr

What about the index?

Image Sources:Library: http://www.edudemic.com/librarian-blogs/

Cat&Dog: http://trupanion.com/blog/2013/06/the-cat-dog-condundrum-sharing-a-harmonious-home/ (Photo by Peretz Partensky via Flickr)

Developer: http://finickypenguin.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/my-head-exploded/

Baby: http://www.comicsandmemes.com/best-of-success-baby-meme/