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Advanced Algolia or Meilisearch index management and search

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 5.8.0 or later, and PHP 8.2 or later.

Installation

You can install this plugin from the Plugin Store or with Composer.

From the Plugin Store

Go to the Plugin Store in your project’s Control Panel and search for “Dexter”. Then press “Install”.

With Composer

Open your terminal and run the following commands:

# go to the project directory
cd /path/to/my-project.test

# tell Composer to load the plugin
composer require boldminded/craft-dexter

# tell Craft to install the plugin
./craft plugin/install dexter

Documentation

https://docs.boldminded.com/dexter/docs-craft

Template Tags

Iterate over search results object directly from Algolia or Meilisearch.

{% set results = craft.dexter.search({
    index: 'demo_collections',
    filter: [],
    perPage: 50,
}) %}

{% if results %}
    <ul>
        {% for result in results %}
            <li>{{ result.title }}</li>
        {% endfor %}
    </ul>
{% else %}
    <p>No results found.</p>
{% endif %}

Or, use the idsOnly parameter to retrieve only the UIDs of the search results. Then use the UIDs to fetch the full entry object with Craft's entries tag.

{% set ids = craft.dexter.search({
    index: 'demo_collections',
    term: 'empire',
    filter: [],
    perPage: 50,
    idsOnly: true,
}) %}

{% set entries = craft.entries.section('collection').uid(ids).all() %}

{% if entries %}
    <ul>
        {% for result in entries %}
            <li>{{ result.title }}</li>
        {% endfor %}
    </ul>
{% else %}
    <p>No results found.</p>
{% endif %}

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