Apache Solr for TYPO3 CMS 6.x

Status and Outlook

Agenda

● About me● History of EXT:solr● Current status● Roadmap● Is it open source?

About me

Olivier DobberkauCEO of dkd Internet Service GmbHResearch and Developmentover 10 years of TYPO3 CMSMember of the T3A EAB

olivier.dobberkau@dkd.deTwitter: T3RevNeverEnd

... the TYPO3 CMS search itch

Scratching ...

History of EXT:solr

We all know when a solution fails ...

History of EXT:solr

● Indexed Search gave us some pain● First prototype 2009● What you get in one or two days of work

Current Status

Current version in TER: 2.8.2Version was released in late 2012Introduced the Add-ons for additional featuresSupported TYPO3 CMS Versions4.5, 4.6 & 4.7Supported Solr Server3.6.2

(Time flies when you are having fun!)

The next TER Release

TER: 2.8.3

Will introduce support for TYPO3 CMS Versions 4.5 - 6.1Loads of bug-fixes

Maintenance Release

Next Major Version

EXT:solr 3.x will be the next versionRelease will be very soon after 2.8.3

Will have no new features on the TYPO3 sideSupport for TYPO3 CMS 4.5 - 6.1Add Apache Solr 4.4 as a Server

Roadmap for EXT:solr 4.x

● Backend parts of the EXT all in Extbase● Templates go FLUID● Frontend goes Extbase● 4.x will be 6.2 only● Effort estimated 2 to 4 man moths

The EXT:solr ecosystem

The base is EXT:solr

Features are added thru Add-ons● EXT:solrfile (File-Indexing for CMS 4.5 - 4.7)● EXT:solrdam (File-Indexing with DAM)● EXT:solrfal (File-Indexing for CMS 6.1 & 6.2)● EXT:solrmlt (More like this)● EXT:solrgrouping● EXT:tika (Extracting Service)

Some web resources

You will find a lot of infos around the Apache Solr Extension:

● www.typo3-solr.com● http://forge.typo3.

org/projects/show/extension-solr● Mailing List / Newsgroup / Forums● Afraid of Solr? try www.hosted-solr.com

Questions?

Thank you!olivier.dobberkau@dkd.de