FarCry Search Function

[CarpalTunnel]

Can a FarCrcy CMS Website have a search feature built into it. I am being told by a developer that our site being managed by Farcry can not have a search function added to the site? Are they just being lazy?

[mrfelna]

Yes … and no.

There is a great plugin FarCrySolrPro (FarCry Solr Pro Plugin) that makes setting up searches so much easier.

GitHub - jeffcoughlin/farcrysolrpro: FarCry Solr Pro plugin Supports: Solr...

That said, it’s not plug and play (in my limited experience). It requires some setup to get the plugin working and some playing around to understand how it all works with FarCry. I only have experience integrating it into Lucee though, ColdFusion may be easier.

The farcrycore team on discourse has always been very helpful and pointed me in the right direction. This forum in general is very good. I would take a look at this topic: FarCry Solr Pro Plugin and if you run into problems, search for them here.

FarCry Solr Pro Plugin

The FarCry Solr Pro plugin lets you use the power of Lucene (through Solr) to index and search your site. It goes above and beyond ColdFusion’s native implementation of Solr. FarCry Solr Pro was designed with FarCry’s framework in mind. It matches each record with its unique record ID and grants you the power to make your searches more relevant with things like field boosting, search term elevation, and more. https://github.com/jeffcoughlin/farcrysolrpro Minimum Requirements ColdFusion 9 or …

[justincarter]

Yes, a FarCry site can have a search.

There’s a sample search implementation in the Fandango perfect skeleton which does basic SQL “like” matching for HTML pages, just on component and a few webskins (dmSimpleSearch).

If you want something more advanced then the FarCry SOLR Pro plugin might be suitable, it requires running SOLR on your server(s) (there are installation instructions).

There are also other options… We have an Amazon CloudSearch plugin and an Azure Search;

FarCry Core

And if your site is publicly visible to the internet, you can let Google crawl your site and implement Google Custom Search.

So really the answer is, yes you can use an existing plugin or you can build something to suit your needs. If you need more assistance please let us know

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Other Example Search Plugins

AWS Cloudsearch Plugin

Cloudsearch Plugin interfaces with the Amazon Cloudsearch service to provide search capabilities for any FarCry application. Cloudsearch is an API based implementation of the SOLR search engine, and the plugin works similarly to the FarCry Solr Pro Plugin. Cloudsearch is an AWS specific API for a commercial SOLR Pro service. We follow previous search engine plugin (Verity, Solr and Solr Pro) approaches to configuration and indexing. Standard search and results outputs are straightforward. G…

Azure Search Plugin

Azure Search Plugin interfaces with the Microsoft Azure Search service to provide search capabilities for any FarCry application. Azure Search is an API based implementation of the Azure Search service, and the plugin works similarly to the FarCry Solr Pro Plugin. https://github.com/farcrycore/plugin-azuresearch Easily add sophisticated cloud search capabilities to your website or application using the same integrated Microsoft natural language stack that’s used in Bing and Office and that’s …

Google Site Search Plugin

Provides close integration for FarCry projects with the Google Site Search service. License: LGPL Code, documentation, bug tracking, etc: Google Custom Search enables you to create a search engine for your website, your blog, or a collection of websites. You can fine-tune the ranking, customize the look and feel of the search results, and invite your friends or trusted users to help you build your custom search engine. Features include: webtop configuration support for page mapping custo…

Simple Search Example

farcrycore/project-fandango/blob/master/packages/forms/dmSimpleSearch.cfc