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This package provides a powerful, facetable, language- and domainaware PHP based Search implementation. The search is performed using an intelligent SQL query to perform complex, fuzzy searches in milli-seconds. To provide high performance, the search is executed on an index of all your contents in your TYPO3 installation. The search can handle custom record types with ease using a class based, extendable indexing algorithm. The indexing of pages is already implemented with its own indexer task.

Based on the index you can also generate a complete xml sitemap.

Requirements

TYPO3 v10
TYPO3 - Better API
Installation using Composer

Installation

Install this package using composer:

composer require labor-digital/typo3-search-and-index

After that, you can activate the extension in the Extensions-Manager of your TYPO3 installation

Documentation

You can find a documented implementation in the T3SAI branch of the T3BA example repository.

Running the indexer

To run the indexer, either use the "t3sai:indexer" cli command, or create a new Scheduler task using the "Search and Index - Indexer" class. You can also run the indexer by using the "LaborDigital\T3sai\Core\Indexer\Indexer" class in your code.

Provided routes

GET /t3sai/sitemap.xml Provides the sitemap (based on the requesting hostname), generated based on the search index.
POST /t3sai/autocomplete Provides an endpoint to generate Ajax autocomplete features. Simply POST your request with your input string as "search" (form-data) and receive the list of autocomplete results as JSON. You might also send a domainIdentifier as "domain" to narrow down the autocomplete results.

T3FA integration

If you are using the TYPO3 Frontend API extension the Provided routes will automatically be disabled!

Instead, you can utilize the api capabilities provided by T3FA when running searches, deploying the sitemap.xml or resolving autocomplete results.

Search Bundle

The search bundle includes two resources which can be used to access the search index, completely through the api.

<?php

namespace Vendor\Extension\Configuration\ExtConfig\Site\Main;

use LaborDigital\T3fa\ExtConfigHandler\Api\BundleCollector;
use LaborDigital\T3fa\ExtConfigHandler\Api\ConfigureApiInterface;
use LaborDigital\T3sai\Api\Bundle\SearchBundle;

class Api implements ConfigureApiInterface
{
    public static function registerBundles(BundleCollector $collector): void
    {
        $collector->register(SearchBundle::class);
    }
}

GET /api/resources/t3sai_search

This route can be used to retrieve search results for a provided input string. You can use the default "page" arguments to paginate the results.

Additionally, there are the following arguments:

input (string) REQUIRED: The urlencoded input string to find the results for
L (int|string): Either a two char iso language code, or a sys language uid to find the results for. If omitted, the current frontend langauge will be used.
tags (string): A comma separated list of tags in which the results must be findable
domain (string): The identifier of a specific search domain to find the results in
site (string): By default, the current TYPO3 site will be used for the search. This option can be used to target a specific site.
maxTagItems (int): A limiter of how many entries PER TAG should be returned
contentMatchLength (int): Defines how many chars the "contentMatch" field can contain in the results
with (string): A comma separated list of additional flags while resolving the results.
- count: If given, the list of item counts per tag in the result will be returned, in the "meta" array.
- tags: If given a list of available tags and their translations will be returned.

GET /api/resources/t3sai_autocomplete

This route can be used to retrieve autocomplete suggestions for a provided input string. You can use the default "page" arguments to paginate the results.

If the last char of the input is a space (" ") the suggestions for the next word will be returned, If the last char of the input is a normal character, the suggestions to complete the current word will be returned.

Additionally, there are the following arguments:

input (string) REQUIRED: The urlencoded input string to find the results for
L (int|string): Either a two char iso language code, or a sys language uid to find the results for. If omitted, the current frontend langauge will be used.
domain (string): The identifier of a specific search domain to find the results in
site (string): By default, the current TYPO3 site will be used for the search. This option can be used to target a specific site.

Sitemap Bundle

The sitemap bundle provides the /api/sitemap.xml route

<?php

namespace Vendor\Extension\Configuration\ExtConfig\Site\Main;

use LaborDigital\T3fa\ExtConfigHandler\Api\BundleCollector;
use LaborDigital\T3fa\ExtConfigHandler\Api\ConfigureApiInterface;
use LaborDigital\T3sai\Api\Bundle\SitemapBundle;

class Api implements ConfigureApiInterface
{
    public static function registerBundles(BundleCollector $collector): void
    {
        $collector->register(SitemapBundle::class);
    }
}

GET /api/sitemap.xml

Returns the XML sitemap (based on the requesting hostname), generated based on the search index.

Postcardware

You're free to use this package, but if it makes it to your production environment we highly appreciate you sending us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using.

Our address is: LABOR.digital - Fischtorplatz 21 - 55116 Mainz, Germany

We publish all received postcards on our company website.

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