[TYPO3-dev] New search extension based on ht://dig

[Christopher Torgalson]

Hi Ingo,

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ingo Renner<ingo at typo3.org> wrote:
> Jigal van Hemert wrote:
>
> Hi Jigal and all,
>
>> Does it support access restricted pages and content (like indexed_search
>> does)? This is a major disadvantage of for example Mnogosearch (which is
>> also an external (external as in "not inside TYPO3") search engine).
>
> Sorry for a little hijacking and advertising here, but it might be
> interesting for you ;)
>
> We're currently working on a search engine based on Apache Solr which
> does respect the access restrictions and also handles multi language
> sites. It's currently in private development, but we'll have a birds of
> a feather session at T3CON09 Frankfurt and we also plan to have a public
> release later this year.
>
> Currently implemented features include:
>
> * FE indexing
> * searching (of course)
> * page browser
> * sorting of results
> * spell checker / did you mean (no other tool than Solr needed)
> * respects access restrictions
> * faceted search!!
> * easy installation (install Tomcat and Solr, install the extension, set
> the Solr URL in the extension TS, set config.index_enable = 1, be done
> with it.)
> * auto suggest
> * highlighting
> * no DB queries when presenting the results -> fast
> * EXT:commerce integration
> * and more
>
> planned features
>
> * More like this (place a MLT plugin on a page and get links to pages
> with similar content, usefull especially for shops)
> * BE module for easy administration and statistics
> * reuse of statistics data in FE to create tag clouds of popular searches
> * EXT:tt_news integration
> * and more


This sounds like an interesting project. Can you say a few words about
the advantages of SOLR over mnogosearch?


-- 
Christopher Torgalson
http://www.typo3apprentice.com/