If you wish to interface to Solr from PHP, and decide to go with Yonik's suggestion to use JSON, I would suggest using http://code.google.com/p/solr-php-client/
It has served my needs for the most part. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com>wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, onlinespend...@gmail.com > <onlinespend...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am planning on creating a website that has some SOLR search > capabilities > > for the users, and was also planning on using PHP for the server-side > > scripting. > > > > My goal is to find the most efficient way to submit search queries from > the > > website, interface with SOLR, and display the results back on the > website. > > If I use PHP, it seems that all the solutions use some form of character > > based stream for the interface. It would seem that using a binary > > representation, such as javabin, would be more efficient. > > > > If using javabin, or some similar efficient binary stream to interface > SOLR > > with PHP is not possible, what do people recommend as the most efficient > > solution that provides the best performance, even if that means not using > > PHP and going with some other alternative? > > I'd recommend going with JSON - it will be quite a bit smaller than > XML, and the parsers are generally quite efficient. > > -Yonik > http://lucenerevolution.org Lucene/Solr Conference, Boston Oct 7-8 >
