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I've got a little bit of experience with Solr, and could try to set you up with search solution if that would be useful? For the front end I'd suggest https://github.com/evolvingweb/ajax-solr, but I've not used that myself.

Posted on January 15, 2015 at 1:23 PM

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• faceface

  

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  Search still sux. Anyone working on this? Solr is the way to go.

  Posted on February 8, 2015 at 4:15 PM
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• adam

  

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  @cryptonaut will take a look at it when he gets time, right now he's crunching towards the first release of the new collaborative editorial multi blog system. The platform is open source so if you wanted to make the neccesary changes it's out there.

  Posted on February 8, 2015 at 5:39 PM
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  Thanks Adam. This isn't about making changes per-se, it's simply about indexing the current content into a Solr server, then building a JS interface to that server (which is then just 'included' here). If you can give me access to the content database (via an API?), I can index it in Solr to show you the search solution. Hope that's clearer?

  Cheers,

  Posted on February 8, 2015 at 5:56 PM
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• franckuestein

  

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  @adam @cryptonaut will take a look at it when he gets time, right now he's crunching towards the first release of the new collaborative editorial multi blog system. The platform is open source so if you wanted to make the neccesary changes it's out there.

  That's what makes this community really valuable, open source.

  Posted on February 9, 2015 at 3:43 AM
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• Cryptonaut

  

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  @faceface Thanks Adam. This isn't about making changes per-se, it's simply about indexing the current content into a Solr server, then building a JS interface to that server (which is then just 'included' here). If you can give me access to the content database (via an API?), I can index it in Solr to show you the search solution. Hope that's clearer?

  Cheers,

  I definitely like the idea of doing all the indexing and searching from a different server, search engines are a pain to build :p

  We have an API you can use. Right now the documentation for it is between a couple different documents. check it out:

  General web API and blog API: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uR6blRenaiIHBriaSOERuOVfx3oaI-v6xg799UQhSXg/edit

  Forum API: https://github.com/tokenly/tokenly-cms/tree/master/www/slick/App/API/V1/Forum

  Feel free to message me if you run into issues

  Posted on February 9, 2015 at 7:42 AM
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• faceface

  

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  Thanks, looks solid. Now I just need to find the time to try it out... Cheers, Dan.

  Posted on February 10, 2015 at 2:39 PM
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  OK, I can work with it as is, but for convenience, can you implement a '/replies' end point?

  Posted on February 11, 2015 at 12:19 PM
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  @faceface OK, I can work with it as is, but for convenience, can you implement a '/replies' end point?

  the /threads/{thread ID} endpoint provides both thread data and the list of replies. e.g https://letstalkbitcoin.com/api/v1/forum/threads/need-help-setting-up-a-solr-search-server

  Posted on February 11, 2015 at 12:40 PM
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• faceface

  

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  Exactly, so I'll have to enumerate over each thread id. That's fine, but not so convenient.

  Posted on February 11, 2015 at 2:01 PM
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• faceface

  

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  Here is my work in progress (mostly just plumbing at the moment). I've decided to use Elasticsearch instead of Solr, just for fun: https://github.com/dbolser/tokenly/blob/master/indexing_wip.pl

  I'll make a pull request once it's working. BTW, where should I put this file?

  Also, I found a 'bug' in the API commonly known as a UTF8 BOM 'issue': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

  Here's a discussion of the issue: https://gist.github.com/dbolser/d002bde517d088fe4c25

  Cheers,

  Posted on February 12, 2015 at 3:22 PM
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