Wildcards and phrases and 'spanish order' of the results

Tuesday 07 July 2009 6:20:54 am

Hi. I have two questions. Maybe they're not related to eZFind but Solr itself, but maybe some of you has similar issues.

First One. I would like to know if it's possible find a way to search for Articles that starts with a letter. I'll try to explain.

Supponse you have two articles. One is entitled 'Once upon a time' and the other one is 'in and old country'.

Doing a search like

{def $search = fetch('ezfind', 'search', hash( 
							'query', '',
							'class_id', array( 78 ),
							'filter', 'article/title:o*'
))}

i get these two articles in the results but i only 'need to find' the first one. trying to enquote the search doesn't work. so, i need a way, if possible, to work with wildcards and entire phrases.

The second one is related to spanish tildes. Suppose you have a set of words like:

avión
ángel
casa

if i filter by 'a*' i get

avión
ángel

and that's ok. but i only need to orther those words i get

avión
casa
ángel

So, is there any way to tell solr that 'á' should be between 'a' and 'b' for the orders?

Thank you.

Wednesday 08 July 2009 1:37:09 am

Hi Max.

Your reply has helped me a lot. I only need this condition (look in the entire field) for a few specific attributes. At first, those attributes was defined as ezstring.

So, what i've done is to build a custom datatype (just a copy of de default ezstring with some changes in the names) and map this datatype to string in my ezfind.ini.append.php.
Something like

[SolrFieldMapSettings]
DatatypeMap[ezcustomtext]=string

Then, I just added new attributes of this type to the classes, and with a cli script, i copied the values from the old attributes to the new ones and finally deleted the old ones. After running indexing script all is working as i want for those fields, so thank you very much!

For the second issue i will look at your recomendations. Thanks again.