d-rivera-c/silverstripe-faq

Provides Q&A pages and Solr-based search

FAQ

, _(*1)

Introduction

This module provides FAQ functionality on top of Solr., _(*2)

Just by adding the module to the project, you'll get a ModelAdmin for FAQs, where you can manage Questions & Answers. You only need to add an FAQPage type (comes with the module), and some questions and answers., _(*3)

The module comes with its own Solr search index, customized to have a fuzzy search, and has its own file for stopwords and synonyms., _(*4)

Requirements

• Fulltextsearch module, v2.1.0 or up.
• Phockito and PHPunit for testing, not required if you don't care about running tests.

Installation

composer require silverstripe/faq

Run a database rebuild by visiting http://yoursite.com/dev/build. This will add the required database columns and tables for the module to function., _(*5)

Ensure you have silverstripe/fulltextsearch-localsolr running (See this modules docs for starting local instance of Solr)., _(*6)

Run the Solr related tasks:, _(*7)

$ ./framework/sake dev/tasks/Solr_Configure
$ ./framework/sake dev/tasks/Solr_ReIndex

If you are using CWP

Check how to configure this module to behave like CWP-Solr on the docs., _(*8)

Quickstart

1. Add a FAQPage to your CMS, _(*9)

   , _(*10)

2. Add an FAQ on the FAQ ModelAdmin sidebar link, _(*11)

   , _(*12)

3. Wait for Solr to reindex, _(*13)

4. Search your FAQ page :), _(*14)

   , _(*15)

Features

• Featured FAQs
• Categories

Links

• Module configuration
• Configuring Solr
• Using CWP

TODO

• Get static config variables from yml files for controller
• Pagetypes, search index and dataobjects easily extendable
• version FAQs (?)