Presentation of an extension to integrate Apache Solr for TYPO3. Apache Solr is an enterprise search server, TYPO3 is a mid-to large size enterprise Content Management System; combining both results in great user search experience.

1. Apache Solr & TYPO3
Ingo Renner TYPO3 Core Developer,
Release Manager TYPO3 4.2

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3. Indexed
Search

4. Indexed Search
• Indexing Frontend / Crawler
• Respects access rights
• Respects languages
• Index in Database
• Totally OK for smaller websites
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5. Apache Solr

6. So what is Apache Solr?
• Enterprise Search Server
• Based on Lucene Index
• Apache Software Foundation Project
• Many powerful features
• CNet, Netflix, ilocal.nl, Zappos.com

7. Solr Concepts
• Index = Collection of Documents
• Document = Data stored in Fields
• Field Type defines processing through
Analizers, Tokenizers, Filters
• Dynamic Fields
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• Copy Fields
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8. Why Apache Solr?
• Speed: Many times faster than IS
• Better search results
• Faceted search
• Spellchecker: Did you mean ... ?
• Similarity search: More like this ...
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Editorial Content / paid search results
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• Synonyms, Stopwords
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• Boosting of specific index fields
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Replication, distributed search
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9. How it works
• REST like interface
• Indexing of XML Documents through
HTTP POST
• Querying through HTTP GET
• Results as XML, JSON, PHP
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10. Disadvantages
• Needs Java
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• We donʻt want to deal with Java
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11. Advantages
• Multiple times faster than IS
• NO database queries
• Easy installation / Configuration
• Respects access rights
• Respects languages
•
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Cutomizability
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12. EXT:solr
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13. Current Status
• „Acts like Indexed Search“
• Indexing through Frontend / Crawler
• Search
• Search Word Highlighting
• Sorting
• Spellchecker: Did you mean ... ?
• Similarity Search: More like this ...
• Faceted Search
• Suggest / Autocompletion

14. Outlook
• Backend Modul
• API, indexing through BE
• Related Searches
• Last Searches
• Smart Reranking through user usage
• Editorial Search Results
• Editing of Stopwords, Synonyms

15. Development Model
• Private financing of new features
• Financing partners get
Early Access and Support
• Minimum stake of 5 man days
• v2.0 end of Q2 next year
• Development as Community
Project in parrallel

16. Community Edition
• Released v1.0 on TER
• Project on TYPO3 Forge
• Open Development
• Only few differences
compared to „our“ version

17. Showcases

18. Showcases

19. Showcases

20. Showcases

21. Showcases

22. Showcases

23. Making the
sun shine on
your search

24. Requirements, Setup
• Requires any J2EE container:
Tomcat, Jetty, Resin, ...
• Run setup scripts provided with EXT:solr
• Copy provided configuration files to Solr
• config.index_enable = 1

25. Customization
• Indexing of additional Data through
hooks, interfaces, TS configuration
• Individual index schema
• En/Disable features through TS
• Individual, flexible rendering of results

26. More than Solr

27. Projects around Solr
• Lucene - Search Index Library
• Tika - Content Extraction from Files
• Nutch - Crawl External Sites

28. Thanks for listening.

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