README

A SilverStripe module that enables you to build a project-specific "search engine" with fulltext search with relevance and weighting.

This module by itself does not do much - it provides the framework to implement a 'search engine' specific to your project.

See fromholdio/silverstripe-sherlock-pages for an example implementation, which uses this core module and implements a search engine for all Pages, with sorting by relevance, and weights matches to Title and MenuTitle higher than matches within content.

Apologies, I haven't had the chance to write much documentation for this yet. See the source of the above-referenced module, or submit an issue with any question you may have in the meantime.

At a high level this aims to:

• Fulltext search
• Use fulltext relevance scores and order results by this
• Create and search multiple fulltext indexes in one search, add different weighting to each index's relevance score and order results accordingly
• Define search fields that go directly to the first found result if matched (say, if the search phrase is an exact page/dataobject title, or urlsegment, match - totally optional)
• Maintain search logs for future analytics/reporting
• Provide idempotent search engine build task, to maintain entries

Requirements

• silverstripe-cms ^4
• symbiote/silverstripe-gridfieldextensions ^3.0
• sheadawson/silverstripe-dependentdropdownfield ^2.0
• fromholdio/silverstripe-commonancestor ^1.0

Recommended

• fromholdio/silverstripe-fulltext-innodb ^1.0
• fromholdio/silverstripe-fulltext-filters ^1.0
• fromholdio/silverstripe-sherlock-pages ^1.0

Installation

composer require fromholdio/silverstripe-sherlock

Detail

Detail and usage examples to come.

See fromholdio/silverstripe-sherlock-pages for usage example.

To Do

• Make use of the search logs in the form of intelligent/interesting search analytics reports
• Only require silverstripe-framework rather than silverstripe-cms
• Thorough documentation

Thanks & Acknowledgements

Thanks to these most excellent projects for providing inspiration

• https://github.com/vulcandigital/silverstripe-search
• https://github.com/nglasl/silverstripe-extensible-search
• https://github.com/Firesphere/silverstripe-searcher/