Published on November 5th, 2024 by Yannick Lyn Fatt
If you have ever had a need to implement search into your application you've probably heard of Apache Solr. Solr is a fast, open source search platform built on the full-text, vector, and geospatial search capabilities of Apache Lucene.
Developer Haider Jabbar Abdullah has built a package called Laravel-Solr to provide a seamless integration with Apache Solr. This will allow Laravel developers to efficiently utilize Solr’s powerful search capabilities right in their applications.
Once you have this setup, you will want to create a core (if one does not already exist). In Solr, the term core is used to refer to a single index and associated transaction log. You can have multiple cores if needed and in doing so it will allow you to index data with different structures in the same server. This can also give you more control over how your data is presented to different audiences.