I looked at the PHP clients a couple of years ago and they didn’t seem to add much.
I wrote PHP code to make GET requests to Solr and parse the JSON response. It wasn’t much more code than doing it with a client library. The client libraries don’t really do much for you. They can’t even keep connections open or pool them, because PHP doesn’t do that. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Apr 15, 2016, at 8:39 AM, Sara Woodmansee <swood...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Shawn, > > No clue what PHP client they are using. > > Thanks for the info! > > Sara > >> On Apr 15, 2016, at 10:35 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: >> >> On 4/15/2016 8:15 AM, Sara Woodmansee wrote: >>> When I suggested the developer consider upgrading to v5.5 or 6.0 (from >>> v3.6), this was their response. It’s clear that upgrading is not going to >>> happen any time soon. >>> >>> Developer response: "But to use SOLR 5, there is a need to find a stable >>> and reliable php client. And until very recent time there were no release. >>> In other case we would have to write PHP client itself. Then we would have >>> to rewrite integration API with a software, because API very likely has >>> changed. And then make changes to every single piece of code in backend and >>> frontend of our system that is tied up with search functionality in any >>> way. “ >>> >>> — I would still like to know (from you folks) if the “stable PHP client” >>> issue still holds true? Perhaps that is not an easy question. >> >> There should be PHP clients with Solr4 support. Those should work well >> with 5.x. I don't know enough about 6 to comment on how compatible it >> would be. >> >> All PHP clients are third-party -- the project didn't write any of >> them. Which PHP client are you using now? >> >> Thanks, >> Shawn >> >
