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eceers

Community Member, 24 Posts

6 May 2010 at 6:42pm

My client has a need to be able to include text from PDF's in site searchs. Does anyone know if this possible using the standard silverstripe search?

I found this page http://doc.silverstripe.org/modules:sphinx but can't seem to find much more on it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

6 May 2010 at 10:32pm

The built in search cannot search pdf text so you'll have to use Sphinx which you can download via svn - http://svn.silverstripe.com/open/modules/sphinx/trunk. A bit more documentation is available in the readme file / docs bundled with the module.

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swaiba

Forum Moderator, 1899 Posts

7 May 2010 at 9:00pm

no, but you do not need any exe's to do so, you can use php functions to get the text content of a pdf (http://www.webcheatsheet.com/php/reading_clean_text_from_pdf.php) and then you can change "function results($data, $form)" in Page.php to add items to the results based on what you find.

foreach ($arrPDFs as $pdf)
{
	$p = new Page();
	$p->Title = "Title"; //update with value from current pdf
	$p->URLSegment = "URLSegment"; //update with value from current pdf
	$p->Content = "Content"; //update with value from current pdf
	$p->Name = "Name"; //update with value from current pdf
	$p->Relevance = 1;//not sure about this one
	$p->CanViewType = 'Anyone';

	$data['Results']->push($p);
}