Extension:SolrStore

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SolrStore Release status: beta
Implementation	User interface, Search
Description	Mediawiki Search with Apache Solr
Author(s)	Simon Bachenberg, Stephan Gambke, Sascha Schüller
Last version	0.6 (2011-12-16)
MediaWiki	1.16+
PHP	5
Database changes	no
License	Apache 2.0
Download	Download snapshot (Git master) SVN [?]: checkout-url • tree • code changes log
Parameters $wgSolrUrl, $wgSolrFields, $wgSolrShowRelated, $wgSolrDebug, $wgSolrTalker
Check usage (experimental)

Extension SolrStore is a new provider of searches for Semantic Mediawiki. You can search your semantic properties with the power of a fulltext search engine (lucene), by defining custom search forms.

Requirements

Having Semantic MediaWiki installed is a precondition for the SolrStore extension: the code will not work without it.

You need the Following pieces of Software:

• Semantic MediaWiki
• Apache Solr
• Apache Tomcat
• php Client URL Library (cURL)

Installation

At first you need to install Solr. After that copy the Solr Configuration files from /SolrStore/solr-example/core0 to one of your Solr cores and restart your Tomcat.

To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

include_once("$IP/extensions/SolrStore/SolrStore.php");
$smwgDefaultStore = "SolrConnectorStore";
 
#url to your solr
$wgSolrUrl = 'http://localhost:8080/solr/sofis';

Configuration parameters

#fieldSets for Field-based Searching
$wgSolrFields = array(
    new SolrSearchFieldSet('Projects', 'Title; Persons; id', 'Title; Persons; Project Id', ' AND category:Project'),
    new SolrSearchFieldSet('<Name of FieldSet>', '<Semantic Properties>', '<Label>', '<Additional Query Parameters>')
);

Template System

• If you prefer to use other template for example: "FIS Template"
• add to LocalSettings.php

# define Template
$wgSolrTemplate = "_FIS";

create template

• Conditions to use:

1. create the file in: ./extensions/SolrStore/templates
2. make a copy of the existing SolrSearchTemplate_Standart.php
3. rename the file to: SolrSearchTemplate_NEWNAME.php
4. rename the class to: SolrSearchTemplate_NEWNAME
5. add to LocalSettings.php:

# define Template
$wgSolrTemplate = "_NEWNAME";

For faster indexing use "maintenance/runJobs.php" and run some Jobs.

Demo

If you want to try our Search visit:

• http://sofis.gesis.org/sofiswiki/Spezial:SolrSearch - Fieldbased Search
• http://sofis.gesis.org/sofiswiki/Spezial:Search - Mediawiki Search with Solr