Thanks for the tips Ian Building this search solution is the next job on my every growing list, I think I'll blog it as it'll be a really good example of someone who is starting from the beggining with very little knowledge
:-) On 03/10/2007, Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt Davies wrote: > > Hi Ian > > > > > > I'm not very clued up with Java so solr, although I've built it to > > work on 3 sites now with django, they're still single indexes. We've > > got over 200 sites in house that we're looking for a compelte search > > solution for. > > > > I think solr is definately the way to go, but as we're moving all our > > sites into django, then a one stop search application built in django > > to query all those sites would have been nice. Especially if someone > > else had written it :-) > > > > See, I'm lazy really, but I think I'm going to have to learn java as > > my boss is also a rails fan, so Sorl is looking like the most likely > > candidate. > > > > I love it by the way, it's fab! > > > > > you don't need to learn java, just how to install tomcat. > configuring solr is a matter of editing a single XML file for the most > part, and your done. > sure, you can go under the covers and add some advanced functionality if > you want to, and you would need to know java to do that, but for the > majority of people its a black box, just like a mysql database is. > > the client api (in python) means you can still use django for everything > else. > > regards > Ian > > ps. the facet search is a kicker, and once you get the hang of it, it > can replace a database query for TONs of things. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
