Posted on February 7, 2010 - 05:51 by Robert Douglass.
Drupal's file handling capabilities keep getting better. Beyond the core upload module, the filefield module for CCK has enabled us to build sites with all sorts of files; documents, images, music, videos, and so forth. Searching within these docuements, however, has never been a common feature on Drupal sites. Some solutions have existed, particularly for extracting texts from PDFs and common wordprocessing documents. With Apache Solr, the attachments module, and an extension library called Tika, things can be much better. With Tika you can extract texts not only from Microsoft Office, Open Office, and PDF documents, you can also get text and metadata from images, songs, Flash movies and zipped archives. Searching for these texts is done as part of the normal Apache Solr driven site search.
Posted on January 4, 2010 - 08:42 by Robert Douglass.
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We've received several inquiries about adding custom sorts to the the sorting block on search results for our popular Acquia Search product. This is fortunately quite easy, though it currently involves preparing a custom module that implements one hook: hook_apachesolr_prepare_query(&$query)
<?php function hook_apachesolr_prepare_query(&$query) { // You can get the 'solr_field_name' from q=admin/reports/apachesolr $query->set_available_sort('solr_field_name', array( // how the sort link is to appear in the sorts block 'title' => t('Name of sort'), 'default' => 'asc', // or 'desc' )); } ?>
Posted on September 17, 2009 - 07:05 by Gregg Coppen.
Hi,
Up until now I have been manually downloading and installing acquia from acquia.com. While this has worked fine I am busy migrating my setup to a CVS/SVN based one that allows me to use drush to easily update my modules from the command line.
The problem is that drush always hits an error while trying to update a module that came with acquia because it has not been checked out of CVS.
I tried to use the svn checkout of acquia drupal but unfortunately it conflicts with the svn setup I am already using and so is not possible for me to use.
Posted on September 14, 2009 - 21:13 by Peter Wolanin.
As of the final Drupalcon Paris code sprint, http://groups.drupal.org was upgraded to Drupal 6, and its site search has also started running on Apache Solr. Since last summer we have used a scrubbed groups.drupal.org database dump which we updated to Drupal 6.x as a test set for Apache Solr Search Integration functionality and screen shots. Having it live on the groups site is great because we've been able to see for months the kind of improved search results that are possible, but frustratingly unable until now to access them in real life.
The groups.drupal.org upgrade was only one of the exciting developments, lively BoFs, or informative presentations around the integration of Apache Solr with Drupal last week. I enjoyed hearing Mike O'Conner's talk about his efforts to integrate Solr search with Ubercart, and several teams discussed their plans to use Apache Solr for existing sites or upcoming projects.
It's been several days since we launched Acquia Search commercially. After reviewing the press, articles, comments, and tweets, I wanted to address the question of why we seem to care so much about search and why we can't simply improve Drupal's built-in search module. These questions came up during the beta test period as well, and have even resonated with the WordPress community on Matt Mullenweg's blog. I feel they are important questions to address.
After allowing Acquia Search to simmer in over two hundred and fifty beta tester kitchens for a few months, Acquia has taken the product and added it to its selection of hosted Acquia Network services.
What Is Acquia Search?
Acquia Search is a hosted search service for Drupal 6.x sites. Those who sign on for this SaaS approach push their Drupal content to Acquia's search servers, which use Apache's Lucene and Solr to index the content and handle the searches.
Published on Jul 2, 2009 in Image and Data Manager
A hosted Search service that can be installed as a module on any Drupal 6 website has been launched by Acquia, the company that offers enterprise support for the open source content management system.
Search was released into beta in March 2009 and provides support for enterprise-scale site indexing and navigation.
By leveraging faceted search navigation, content recommendations and configurable results weighting, Acquia Search creates a rich index of site content and dramatically improves end-user search experience.
We've covered Acquia, which delivers commercial support for the powerful Drupal content management system a number of times. Acquia also delivers its own distribution of Drupal, and the company's co-founder (and also founder of Drupal) Dries Buytaert has now announced that the company has come out of beta testing with its version of Acquia Search. It's available at no cost as part of every Acquia Network subscription.
