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How are smart search tables used in Joomla?
Smart Search adds quite a few new tables to a Joomla installation, including 16 “mapping tables”. These mapping tables resolve the many-to-many relationship between search terms and the content items that contain them. In theory those 16 tables could be merged into a single table and doing so would have negligible impact on small sites.
Which is the best search engine for Joomla?
Large sites may be better off with a dedicated standalone search engine, such as Solr, rather than the pure-PHP implementation used in Smart Search. In this first iteration of advanced search in Joomla it is likely that issues relating to scaling and performance will be revealed.
How are content maps used in Joomla search?
As well as indexing individual words and phrases, you can also have the plug-in add each record to a content map, which might in this case include the kingdom, phylum, class, order and family. Content maps can then be used to filter search results. Can multiple nodes be selected from the filter drop-downs?
Why does Joomla need so much disk space?
Maintaining a search term index requires a fair amount of disk space, which increases the more terms that content items contain. Since phrases are also indexed, the longer the phrases, the more disk space required.
How can smart search be used on multi lingual sites?
Smart Search attempts to avoid the need for wildcard searching by instead supporting word stemming where words that have the same stem are considered equivalent so that searching for “juggler” will also retrieve instances of “juggling” without the need to use wildcards. Can Smart Search be used on multi-lingual sites?
How to skip the old search in Joomla?
Click on the desired menu under the Menus menu item. Filter the modules listed so that only search modules are shown by selecting “Search” from the “Select Type” filter drop-down. If no such modules are listed then there are no instances of the old search available and you can skip this part.
When to close modal window in Joomla smart search?
The indexer uses AJAX requests to complete the overall process in small chunks so as to avoid timeouts and memory problems. Indexing is complete when the progress bar disappears and you see a message indicating that it is now safe to close the modal window.