README

🔎   Need help? Check out our Troubleshooting Guide and our General FAQs. For feedback, bug reporting, or unresolved issues with the extension, please contact us at support@algolia.com. Please include your Magento version, extension version, application ID, and steps to reproducing your issue. Add additional information like screenshots, screencasts, and error messages to help our team better troubleshoot your issues.

• Autocompletion menu: Offer End-Users immediate access to your whole catalog from the dropdown menu, whatever your number of categories or attributes.

• Instantsearch results page: Have your search results page, navigation and pagination updated in realtime, after each keystroke.

Official website: https://www.algolia.com/solutions/magento/.

Note: if your store is running under Magento version 2, please check our Algolia for Magento 2 extension.

Algolia Search

Algolia is a search engine API as a service capable of delivering realtime results from the first keystroke.

This extension replaces the default search of Magento with a typo-tolerant, fast & relevant search experience backed by Algolia. It's based on algoliasearch-client-php, autocomplete.js and instantsearch.js.

You can check out our live demo.

Documentation

Check out the Algolia Search for Magento 1 documentation.

Installation

Follow our getting started guide.

Contribute to the Extension

1. Docker (recommended)

The easiest way to setup your development environment is to use Docker. If you're a Mac user, use Docker for Mac to run Docker containers.

Setup the Docker instance

Just run the following script to setup a running Magento 1.9.2 instance with some sample data & the Algolia Search extension installed:

$ ./dev/restart.sh -a YourApplicationID \
               -k YourAdminAPIKey \
               -s YourSearchOnlyAPIKey \
               -p YourIndexPrefix \
               -b http://`docker ip`/

Administration panel

Administration login is admin with password magentorocks1 and you can access it from http://[docker ip]/admin.

phpMyAdmin

A phpMyAdmin instance is available from http://[docker ip]/phpmyadmin

Shell

You can execute a shell inside the container with the following command:

$ docker exec -i -t algoliasearch-magento /bin/bash

Run the tests

Just run the following script to create a Magento container and launch the tests directly:

$ ./dev/runTests.sh -a YourApplicationID \
               -k YourAdminAPIKey \
               -s YourSearchOnlyAPIKey \
               -p YourIndexPrefix \
               -b http://`docker ip`/

2. Modman

If you do not want to use docker. You can use modman (a module manager for Magento) by running the following commands:

$ cd /path/to/your/magento/directory
$ modman init
$ modman clone https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-magento.git

Need Help?

Here are some helpful documentation to help with your issue:

• General FAQs
• Troubleshooting Guide
• Indexing Queue
• Frontend Custom Events
• Dispatched Backend Events

For feedback, bug reporting, or unresolved issues with the extension, please contact us at support@algolia.com. Please include your Magento version, extension version, application ID, and steps to reproducing your issue. Add additional information like screenshots, screencasts, and error messages to help our team better troubleshoot your issues.