IMHO, haystack is definitely the way to go here. You can read about the faceting parts here: http://docs.haystacksearch.org/dev/faceting.html
It really is pretty easy to use. Setting up the solr backend can be a little weird, but you can use other backends if it is too gross for you. (It is in java). I've done some faceting like you are talking about in a resource library application and it was surprising how easy haystack made it. My experience is that haystack was really easy to use for faceting type stuff. It made a newegg style interface possible and kind of fun. However, it was a lot more difficult to use it as a full site search solution. Then you start to run into the problems Stuart mentions, with getting weighting right and stuff like that. Also, it can be difficult to get all your content indexed. (Haystack likes models, it doesn't work with information in templates as easily.) Alex On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Josh <[email protected]> wrote: > I know that there have been threads on this before but I am curious of > what the current status is. Here: > http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users/browse_thread/thread/d99c68ea6e2504be/064bb6fd8aedffb2 > and here: > http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users/browse_thread/thread/6f7fea8686f0508f/9727d67597f7f709 > Stuart Laughlin referenced that he was working on some sort of faceted > search/navigation. I was wondering if anyone knows the status of that > or maybe Stuart could comment? Has anyone else had experience or > success with this? I think I'm going to take a whack at it and see > what happens. > > -Josh > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Satchmo users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
