This document provides an overview of the Apache Solr search engine and the EXT:solr extension for TYPO3 CMS. It discusses what Apache Solr is, how the TYPO3 EXT:solr extension was created, what features are included, and it demonstrates how to install, configure, and use the extension to index content and perform searches.

1. Apache Solr
for Newbies
Olivier Dobberkau
dkd Internet Service GmbH
Certifuncation 2018

2. Agenda 1/2
● What is Apache Solr?
● How TYPO3 got its Solr Extension?
● What is in the Box?
● Beyond Search
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3. Agenda 2/2
● Demo
○ Install and Index
○ Search Box
○ Results List
○ Facets
● Q & A
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4. Solr is the popular, blazing-fast,
open source enterprise search
platform built on Apache Lucene™.
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
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5. What is Apache Solr?
● Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant,
● It provides distributed indexing, replication and load-
balanced querying
● Offering automated failover and recovery, centralized
configuration and more
● Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of
the world's largest internet sites
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6. Apache Solr Features
● Advanced Full-Text Search Capabilities
● Faceted Search and Filtering
● Advanced Configurable Text Analysis
● Query Suggestions, Spelling and More
● Rich Document Parsing
● Flexible and Adaptable with easy configuration
● Standards Based Open Interfaces - XML, JSON and HTTP
● and much more
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7. How TYPO3 got its Apache Solr
Extension?
● In 2009 we at dkd hit the limits of TYPO3 built-in search
Indexed Search
● Servers kept stopping responding while users using the
search
● Customers complaining about not finding the right stuff
● We investigated different options and found Apache Solr
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8. How TYPO3 got its Apache Solr
Extension?
● The idea to program a TYPO3 Extension was born
● So we started to ask around? Who would join us?
● We collected funds to integrate a first version
● Goal: Act as Indexed Search, but using a Solr Index
● We wrote white paper and a calculation for a first MVP
● Can you believe how far we got?
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9. EXT:solr Facts
● over 50 Releases
● over 400 Partners financing
● 96 Contributors
● 97 Github Stars
● 105 801 Installations via packagist
● 31,587 Installations via TER
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10. EXT:solr Facts
Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 38,174
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 9.16 (109.92)
(Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 1.24 (14.91)
(Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 7.37
Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 1,237,365
(average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).
SLOCCount, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 David A. Wheeler
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11. EXT:solr Facts
● Current Version
○ EXT:solr 8.1 for TYPO3 v 8
○ EXT:solr 6.5 for TYPO3 v 7
● We support the two latest LTS Versions
○ TYPO3 v 7 LTS
○ TYPO3 v 8 LTS
● Developer friendliness
○ Master should work with latest and greatest
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12. EXT:solr Facts
● Every quarter we release either a Feature or Bugfix
release
● Great Community of Developers helping us
● Around 500 Solr Friends on Slack #ext-solr
● Over 400 Partners in more than 9 years
● Around 100 Partners per Year
● 800 hours of sponsored development
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13. The Apache Solr Team @dkd_de
● Timo Hund (Developer)
● Rafael Kähm (Developer)
● Markus Friedrich (Developer)
● Thomas Janke (Management / Sales / Support)
● Olivier Dobberkau (Management / Sales)
● Ingo Renner (The first Developer, Friendly Ghost, Living
the American Dream)
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14. What is in the box?
TYPO3
EXT:solr
- Indexing of pages and records into Apache Solr
- Highly integrated into TYPO3
- Powerful FLUID based Frontend
- Search
- Faceting
- Sorting
- Highlighting
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15. Beyond Search
TYPO3
EXT:solr
EXT:solrfal EXT:solrfluidgrouping EXT:solrconsole EXT:solrdebugtools EXT:tikaEXT:solrmlt
- Several public and private addons
- Allowing to build solr based web applications. e.g.:
- Solr based list views
- Downloadcenter (file search with EXT:solr and solrfal)
- Did you know that extensions.typo3.org is powered by ext:solr?
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16. Demo
● How to configure solr?
● How to add the search into your TYPO3 system?
● How to index content?
● (Manager Alert! I am not a dev!)
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18. Demo: Setup
● Create domain record
● Include default TypoScript & configure Solr server
● Enable indexing & configure search markers
● Initialize “Solr Connections”
● Check the TYPO3 report
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20. Demo: Add search plugin
● Add the Solr Search Box to a “Search Page”
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22. Demo: Indexing & Results
● Initialize the index queue
● Run indexer
● Check results in Frontend
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24. Tidbits
You can use our dev-box
https://github.com/TYPO3-Solr/solr-typo3-devbox
Need a Solr Docker box?
https://github.com/TYPO3-Solr/ext-
solr/blob/master/Dockerfile
Roadmap:
https://blog.dkd.de/apache-solr-for-typo3-roadmap-2018/
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25. Questions
& Answers
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26. Thank you!
We would like to thank you!
Additionally we would thanks our Sponsors that make the
development, maintenance and motivation happen!
Please find them here:
https://www.typo3-solr.com/en/sponsors/our-sponsors/
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27. Contact
Olivier Dobberkau <olivier.dobberkau@dkd.de>
Twitter: @T3RevNeverEnd
Our Website: https://www.typo3-solr.com
dkd Internet Service GmbH
Kaiserstrasse 73
D-60329 Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 69 2475218-0
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