Building amazing searches with Search API
summary
Hands-on setup of Search API with a database backend and an Apache Solr server, showing index + server config, when to use immediate indexing versus cron, and specific processor conflicts that break Solr (disable stemming/tokenizing processors). Demonstrates reindexing after schema changes, building a Views page, adding facets & autocomplete, and tuning search fields for live suggestions. Notes: Solr requires secure endpoint, scales to millions, database backend lacks phrase search, and the live demo successfully indexes and returns expected results.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:41Overview
- 1:32Search internal structure
- 2:27Installing Search API
- 5:29Index Immediately
- 9:58Processing
- 19:54Apache Solr
- 22:07Solar setup
- 24:09Solar in action
- 29:49Extension modules
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