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Apache Solr + Drupal: Nuts and Bolts

Posted on Thu, Jun 07, 2012 15:35 by Steve Edwards

In this podcast, I talk with Peter Wolanin and Thomas Seidl, the primary maintainers of the two primary suites of modules for Solr search: Apache Solr Search Integration and Search API modules. We discuss the history of the modules, their different approaches, and recent enhancements that make them more powerful than ever.

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Using apachesolr to index custom data

Posted on Thu, Mar 08, 2012 by Balazs Dianiska
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Imagine you have a custom database table, storing some imported content for your nodes. This post will explain how this content can be exposed to be indexed by Solr via the apachesolr module. The example module provided was tested with apachesolr 6.x-1.6. It assumes that this custom content is associated to nodes (e.g. a custom imported text value).

Acquia - 2009 in Review

Posted on Tue, Jan 05, 2010 by Thomas Erickson
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I was so proud of what our team accomplished in 2009 that I wrote a couple of different versions of our accomplishments. I posted one last week. However, after thinking about it some more, I was so excited by specific achievements, that I decided to post this version as well, which lists many of them.

Views 3 + Apache Solr + Acquia Drupal = The Future of Search

Posted on Wed, Sep 30, 2009 by Robert Douglass
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For the last six months, Scott Reynolds has been keeping a big juicy secret. As the maintainer of the Apache Solr Views module, he knows just how cool the future of Drupal Search is going to be. His module, based on an idea and code from Thomas Seidl, lets you make custom searches against the Solr index the same way you currently make views against the MySQL database.

ApacheSolr search presentation from Do it With Drupal

Posted on Fri, Dec 19, 2008 by Robert Douglass
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Last week Acquia sent me to New Orleans to be a speaker at Lullabot's Do it With Drupal conference. The conference went very well and I gave a presentation about ApacheSolr, and how faceted search will change the way you think about finding things on your site. Since Acquia recently announced that we will be launching a hosted Solr search service even more people have shown interest in ApacheSolr.

Hosted Solr site search for Drupal is on the way

Posted on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 by Jay Batson
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The search technology area is highly important to people with websites. As a result, I've spent serious time looking at it. Several things have come from this time spent:

  • The important thing: We'll soon be adding "hosted site search" capabilities to the Acquia Network for our subscribers. More about this below.

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