This is a simple library for CodeIgniter to interface with Solr. I am not the original author of the code, I've just made it compatible with codeigniter.

This CI library is based on Apache Solr PHP Client.

I created this while implementing solr search on my lyrics site.

Put the files from this repo into application/libraries/solr.

This library is very simple to install, simply load it the way you do any other CI library and pass it an array of parameters (optional).

$this->load->library('solr',array(
    'port' => 8983,
    'path' => '/solr/posts/'
));

You need to set /solr/posts/ to match the name of the core you are searching.

Doing a simple search is easy:

$results = $this->solr->search('cactus');

The simple search above is not useful for real world search applications. You can use the other paramaters of search() to use advanced features such as DisMax:

$results = $this->solr->search('cactus', 0, 10, array(
    'defType' => 'edismax',
    'mm' => '100%',
    'qf' => 'title^10+bodytext'
));