In this post to his site Peter Steenbergen shows you how to integrate SOLR searching into your Laravel application via the PHP Solarium library.

This is my second blog in a series about SOLR with the PHP Solarium library. My first blog was about the usage of OR filters to create Multi-Select facets with SOLR. With this blog item I will show you how easy it is to implement the PHP Solarium library in the Laravel framework.

He starts off with a fresh Laravel install and configures it to connect to a local SOLR server (he assumes you already have one running at this point). The he installs the Solarium library through Composer and makes a new service provider to create the client and bind it to the dependency injection container (app). To test the connection he makes a basic controller with one endpoint and an injected version of the Solarium client. With this working, he introduces the code from his previous post allowing for multi-select facet searching to return matching results.