Did you consider using an existing open-source project to provide the AJAXy UI to your index? VuFind and Blacklight are among the candidates. That's where I'd start, if I were in your position.
-- Mike. On 28 February 2011 03:34, Yitzchak Schaffer <yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > We are working on creating a public-facing biographical index. We're planning > on using Solr with faceting, and building an AJAXy search frontend. We have > experience with symfony for overall framework, so we have begun the project > using that. > > The only robust-looking material I was able to find on Solr with AJAX tonight > was > > https://github.com/evolvingweb/ajax-solr/wiki > > Can anyone offer any alternate projects or approaches? I'm just getting my > feet wet in both advanced JS/frontend dev techniques, and Solr. > > Thanks! > > -- > Yitzchak Schaffer > Systems Manager > Touro College Libraries > 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 > http://www.tourolib.org/ > >
