1. Custom search forms with Apache Solr David Hernández

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3. What is Apache Solr? Open source search platform Written in Java
Uses Apache Lucene library and extends it

4. Features of Apache Solr
Full text search
Faceted search
Rich document handling
Optimized for hight volume web traffic
Scalability
Plugin system

5. Who uses Apache Solr? Whitehouse.gov The Guardian Netflix SourceForge
Ebay
Digg
Reddit

6. Apache Solr with Drupal
Apache Solr Search Integration – apachesolr
Apache Solr Views – apachesolr_views (dev)
Facet API – facetapi
Your Custom search form module!

7. Before starting... Be sure your Solr instance works.
Connect your Drupal with Solr

8. Indexing your content Drush solr-index Drush solr-delete-index
Drush solr-reindex [content type]

9. Code time!

10. Updating the index hook_apachesolr_update_index
&$document: What is indexed
$node: the node being indexed
Dynamic fields
Is_, ss_, its_...

11. Write your search form Function custom_search_forms_form Validation
submit

12. hook_menu
Add it to your menu

13. Prepare your query hook_apachesolr_prepare_query
hook_apachesolr_query_alter

14. Theme the results
Enjoy!

15. More ideas? Search form and results in a block In a panel
Live results with Ajax

16. Find more ApacheSolr Project: http://lucene.apache.org/solr
ApacheSolr module:
Documentation:
Aquia podcast:
SolrQuerySyntax:

17. Thanks for watching and enjoy Drupal with Solr