Development Seed: Searchlight: A Views-driven Approach to Pluggable Search in Drupal

May 28, 2010 by Steve Hanson

Development Seed: Searchlight: A Views-driven Approach to Pluggable Search in Drupal -

Sphinx and Apache Solr are now pluggable

Searchlight is a Views-driven approach to pluggable search in Drupal. Its goals include

• Clean pluggability with search services like Sphinx and Apache Solr
• Per-site or per-application customization of the search schema for fine-grained control of what gets indexed and how
• Support for any Views base tables (e.g. nodes, users, comments, data tables)
• Leverage Views API integration already provided by contrib modules for indexing, faceting, and display
• Multisite deployment, including integration with Aegir.

In this screencast, I explain the high level concepts of Searchlight and do a quick demo of the module:

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