Is there a way to manually call Apache solr search on a page? I know how to do that for the drupal search. This is the code I used to pull in the parameters and get the search results

$searchKey = str_replace(" ","+",$_REQUEST['searchKey']);
$result = node_search('search', $searchKey);

So the url would look something like this. www.example.com/results?searchKey=test

This works for the drupal search. However, this doesn't use the search from Apache solr. So is there anyway I can pass in parameters and pull in the search results using the apache solr module?

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jbunyan’s picture

jbunyan commented

So I used the hook_search function from the apache solr module.
$result = apachesolr_search_search('search', $searchKey);
And it pulls in the search results that I wanted. Do you think this will be a problem in a live environment.

pwolanin’s picture

pwolanin commented
Status: Active » Fixed

It should be ok - that's what the module itself is using, of course. However, you may need to go deeper in the API if you want more control.

jbunyan’s picture

jbunyan commented

Thanks for the information. I wasn't sure if it was good Drupal practice, but it was the only thing that worked for me. So 10 search results show. If I include this in the URL ?page=2, I get the next set of results. So is it possible to pull in the correct pager for the search results. I"m not too familar with pager functions. Would pager(),theme_pager(), or pager_query() give me what I want?

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nick_vh
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Location Ghent
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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Normal pager would certainly give you what you would expect. Normally just use theme('pager') if you want to get a normal pager. Take a look at how the module theme's its pages and it should help you further :-)