Drupal Advanced Search

The Apache Solr module has transformed the way search is performed in Drupal. It allows you to search on general keywords that are of interest to you and provides facet links to enable you to drill down into exactly the right content. For example, if you searched a social media site for all blog entries, you may get a facet which groups all entries into authors. Clicking on a specific author would filter the blog entries that person has written. The Drupal module provides connection and configuration settings for Apache Solr search. Apache Solr is an open source, primarily HTTP-based, search server based on Apache Lucene. Solr contains many enterprise-ready features and includes a plug and play component architecture. This allows new components to be created that further enhance Solr such as

• "Did you mean" spell checking
• Finding Documents that are "More like this"
• Overriding search results based on editorial input (also known as paid placement

If you want to know more about adding Solr to your site please use our contact form or call sales on +44 1865 741762. For an example of Solr in action please visit the Compare Lettings development site.