Full text search

This extension add support for various full text search engines to Yeswiki. It use the https://github.com/php-cmsig/search project to ensure a maximum of compatibility. It implements only a few subset of the search engines available in this project, but if you want to add a new one feel free to add a PR or open an issue.

Features

• Advanced search using tokenization, stemming, typo tolerance...
• Search in the content of bazar entry and pages in the wiki
• Exclude some pages from the search
• Filter result using user permissions
• Search in PDF attachments of bazar entries

Installation

This extension is designed to be used out of the box without any configuration for simple use cases.

• Install the extension using the YesWiki extension manager
• Access the admin page of the extension using the {{ FullTextSearchAdmin }} action and click on the "Initialize" button
• The extension will automatically index the wiki pages and bazar entries on the database
• Add a search box in your wiki using the {{ FullTextSearchSearch }} action. You can use the limit parameter to limit the number of results displayed. For example, {{ FullTextSearchSearch limit="5" }} will display only 5 results. Default is 10.

Configuration

Configuration is done under the fulltextsearch section of the wakka.config.php file.

'fulltextsearch' => [
    'import_batch_size' => 100, // Number of entries to index at once
    'engine_config' => [
        'driver' => 'loupe', // Search engine to use (loupe or typesense)
        'typesense_config' => [ // Configuration for the typesense engine. Not needed if you use another engine
            'api_key' => 'xyz',
            'host' => 'typesense',
            'port' =>  8108,
            'protocol' =>  'http',
        ],
     ],
     /*
     * The following section is used to configure the rendering of the search results.
     * Warning : We try to make our best to render according to the configuration, but the search engine can have defauts lower than the provided values.
     */
     'rendering' => [
        'length_crop' => 50, // Length of the crop. Default is 50 characters.
        'length_excerpt_max' => 200, // Max length of the result excerpt. Default is 200 characters.
     ]
]

Drivers

Loupe

Loupe (https://github.com/loupe-php/loupe) is the default search engine used by this extension. It is based on sqlite so you need the sqlite3 extension to be installed on your server. This is the case for almost all shared hosting providers.

Typesense

Typesense is a fast open source search engine. You need to install it on your server or use https://cloud.typesense.org/ and configure the typesense_config section of the configuration file.

Performance issue

This extension may use a lot of resource server side, especially when indexing attachments and with loupe search engine. In case of error, try increasing the memory limit of your PHP configuration. You can also decrease the import_batch_size parameter in the configuration file to reduce the number of entries indexed at once. If you have more than a few thousand pages, you should consider using another driver than the default one (loupe) for the index.