In the end, the PHP client does a file_get_contents for doing a
search the same way you'd do it "manually". It's all PHP, so you can
do anything it does yourself. It provides what any library of PHP
classes should - convenience. I use the JSON response writer because
it gets the most attention from the Solr community of all the non-XML
writers, yet is still very quick to parse (you might want to do your
own tests comparing the speed of unserializing a Solr phps response
versus json_decode'ing the json version).
Happy Solr'ing,
- Donovan
On Dec 15, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Faire Mii wrote:
i am using php to access solr and i wonder one thing.
why should i use solr php client when i can use
$serializedResult = file_get_contents('http://localhost:8983/solr/
select?q=niklas&wt=phps');
to get the result in arrays and then print them out?
i dont really get the difference. is there any richer features with
the php client?
regards
fayer
