Kirby Typesense

This plugin allow you to index kirby pages into typesense and make fulltext search available for your website.

Overview

This plugin is free and under MIT license, I'm glad if you find it usefull. If you plan to use it for commercial use, or if I saved you some time, please consider helping me to maintain this by either making a donation of your choice or sponsoring me.

1. Install Typesense on your server

1.1 What is Typesense ?

Typesense is an opensource alternative for Algolia or ElasticSearch. It is free and provide a fast typo tolerant search engine.

1.2 Install Typesense

To use this plugin, you need to install Typesense on your server.

2. Install the Kirby Typesense plugin

Download and copy this repository to /site/plugins/typesense

Or even better, to get easy updates, install it with composer: composer require maxchene/kirby3-typesense

3. Configuration

Edit your config file: site/config/config.php to add your own plugin configuration.

Here is what it should look like:

'maxchene.typesense' => [
        'host' => 'localhost:8108', # typesense host and port
        'key' => 'secret', # typesense API key
        'num_typos' => 2, # number of allowed typo error
        'schema' => [
            'name' => 'my-collection',
            'fields' => [
                ['name' => 'content', 'type' => 'string'],
                ['name' => 'type', 'type' => 'string']
            ]
        ],
        'templates' => [
            'article' => function (Page $page) {

            },
            'default' => function (Page $page) {
                return [
                    'content' => 'text content that should be indexed for fulltext search',
                    'type' => 'default'
                ];
            }
        ]
    ]

3.1 Schema configuration

3.2 Templates configuration

4. Use fulltext search

All fields provided in the config file will be searched.

4.1 Site method

This plugins gives you access to the $site->typesenseSearch(string $query, int $limit, int $page) method wherever $site is available: templates, controllers,...

4.2 Typesense Search

You can also create a TypesenseSearch instance :

 $searchEngine = new TypesenseSearch();
 $results =  $searchEngine->search($query, $limit, $page);

5. Command Line

6. Full configuration exemple

7. TODOS

• add command line tools
• improve docs or enable wiki pages for this repo
• maybe add a Page method to build indexed content