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Published inNov 2013
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Jayant Kumar
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Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
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Using PHP to add documents to the Solr index


Let us see the code to add documents to Solr using the Solarium library. When we execute the following query we can see that there are three books of the author George R R Martin in our Solr index:

http://localhost:8080/solr/collection1/select/?q=martin

Let us add the remaining two books, which have also been published to our index:

  1. Create a solarium client using the following code:

    $client = new Solarium\Client($config);
  2. Create an instance of the update query using the following code:

    $updateQuery = $client->createUpdate();
  3. Create the documents you want to add and add fields to the document.

    $doc1 = $updateQuery->createDocument();
    $doc1->id = 112233445;
    $doc1->cat = 'book';
    $doc1->name = 'A Feast For Crows';
    $doc1->price = 8.99;
    $doc1->inStock = 'true';
    $doc1->author = 'George R.R. Martin';
    $doc1->series_t = '"A Song of Ice and Fire"';
    $doc1->sequence_i = 4;
    $doc1->genre_s = 'fantasy';
  4. Similarly, another document $doc2...

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Jayant Kumar

Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
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