On May 28, 2008, at 2:34 AM, Karl Wettin wrote:
It would be perfect if all I had to do was to define a couple of
facet fields, a default text query field and some title/body/class
type to render the results.
Is there such a formula 1A JSP/servlet (or PHP) user interface for
Solr? Perhaps something in the example or admin that I missed? If
none of above, is there any commercial solution I can buy and have
up and running today? I'm hysterically bad at UI.
Solr Flare to the rescue :) (sort of)
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Flare
It is a Ruby on Rails front-end to Solr, with faceted navigation,
Ajax suggest, and paging, as well as integration with SIMILE Timeline
and Exhibit. It is a bit dusty, and requires an older version of
Rails, but it works nicely to prop up against Solr. It does have
some schema.xml requirements, like *_facet used for facet fields -
that is the kind of thing that needs to be refactored out into
configuration.
I haven't devoted any time to Flare in a long while, but it has
served me quite well in the past for many very quick demos and the
basis for Blacklight (blacklight.rubyforge.org).
Erik
