1. Drupal + Solr:
Yandex Market with your own hands
Eugene Ilyin

2. Eugene Ilyin
eilyin@drupaljedi.com
SkypeID: ilyin.e
I have 5 years experience in Drupal development:
● More than 30 projects
● Solr for more than on 15 projects
● Series of articles about Drupal + Solr on habr
● Development of my own modules for search
● Patches for existing search modules

3. Why search is important?
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4. Statistics
● Online sales are growing by 25-30% each year
● 70% of people in Russia shop in the Internet
● Buyers are more likely to use Yandex.Market,
Wikimart, Ebay

5. How to adapt the Drupal for
growing market demands?

6. витрины
визуализация
иерархия
выкладки
гибкие
фильтры

7. сортировки
доуточнение выборки
промоушен

8. Yandex Market Drupal Market
динамично
отзывчиво

9. Don't make it on SQL
there are search engines for this

10. How to make perfect catalog?
Fulltext search
with good
stemming
Many options
User-friendly
filters
Clever sortings
Dynamic facets
Perfect
catalog

11. Tools: must have
● Search API
● Search API Solr Search
● Facet API

12. Tools: useful
● Search API Views
● Facet API Pretty Paths
● Search API Autocomplete
● AJAX Facets
● Search API Sorts

13. Search: basic entities
Search Server
Search Index Search Index
Field Field Field Field Field Field
Facet Facet Facet Facet

14. Main problems
● Quality of search results
● Dynamic set of indexed fields
● Customization of facet filters
● Work with sorting

15. Quality of search results
Completeness of +
the search results
Stemming
Additional
fields with tags
Relevance
Weight of fields
Elevation
Boost
Synonyms

16. What is stemming?
Mr. Stemmer
Hunspell

17. How to configure stemming?
● Enable stemmer in schema.xml
● Prepare dictionaries
● Reindex content

18. What is the structure of dictionaries?
● Dictionary consists of two files
● File .aff contains the rules for words
● File .dic contains the list of words

19. Synonyms? How it works?

20. Configuration of synonyms
Groups of synonyms:
Television, Televisions, TV, TVs
Mappings:
Ifon, I Phone, I-Phone => IPhone

21. Dynamic and static attributes

22. Problems of dynamic attributes
● Set of attributes changes very often
● How to add attributes into index?
● How to enable facets for new attributes?

23. How to work with dynamic attributes?
● Module Relations to link entities and attributes
● hook_entity_info_alter to generate fields
● Use the mechanism of Features for facets

24. Facet filters
Links
Checkboxes
Slider Dropdown
Interval Hierarchy Date & time
Graphs

25. Customization of facets
Prepare data Make your
widget Done!

26. AJAX Facets - how it works?
Filtering
AJAX
request to
the server
Search by new
parameters
Update of filters
on the page
Update of
search results

27. Super Facet!

28. Configurable facet

29. Sorting of search results

30. Sorting and boost query
On stock
To order
Not available
Sorting by
relevance
x1000
x100

31. Sorting and elevation
Usual results
Elevated

32. Human-friendly URL
Not friendly:
www.example.com?q=node/1
www.example.com/node/1
Friendly:
www.example.com/articles/first-article

33. Urls on pages with filters
www.example.com?f[0]=field_name:value
www.example.com?f[0]=field_brand:bosch

34. Human-friendly urls for filters
Module Facet API Pretty Paths
www.example.com/field_name/value
www.example.com/brand/bosch

35. In conclusion
Drupal has many components and solutions for search

36. Thank you!
Eugene Ilyin
eilyin@drupaljedi.com
SkypeID: ilyin.e