Marjory_slides

Full-text searching with Marjory Markus Wolff What s Marjory? A webservice for full-text indexing and searching of documents Written in PHP Based on Zend Framework (Very) Roughly comparable to Solr BSD-licensed, available on Google Code How does Marjory work? Your application Marjory (ReST-based webservice) Search engine (Default: Lucene) Sends Document data or location via POST Stores document data in search engine Sends search terms via GET Queries search engine Returns query results Returns result as XML Features Search engine abstraction use the engine that suits your needs, just write a small adaptor class Zend_Search_Lucene built-in by default Multiple search catalogs Index many sites with one dedicated search server Put all documents matching any criteria into separate search indexes to speed up search More features Two ways to index documents: submit an XML snippet containing any content you want to index or, just submit an URI (valid PHP stream resource) and let Marjory extract the content from the document HTML supported by default (for now) add your own document parser class to extract plain text from any other document format (or special markup structures) Even more features Index documents asynchronously using Dropr as a messaging service Dropr: PHP-based durable messaging service Example webservice and Dropr client included with Marjory Application does not need to wait for document retrieval, parsing and adding to the index More info: www. dropr. org