Writing Moodle's Course Search plugin

Writing Moodle's Course Search plugin

by Shashikant Vaishnav -
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Hi everyone,

I would be developing the "Course Search" plugin for Moodle as part of
the GSoC programme. Its basically Integration of Apache Solr with
moodle course schema. The deliverable includes a functional advance
search plugin for Moodle that can be installed and configured to
substitute basic core search.

As a intial step I have created the fork of the theme clean, overrided
the core_course_renderer and pushed some initial code on this https://github.com/shashirepo/moodle-theme_cleantheme

The doc specification for the project is 

I would be happy to receive feedback & suggestions for the development
of this plugin.

Thank you smile

Regards

Shashikant Vaishnav

(Edited by Helen Foster to add/amend links - original submission Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 6:28 PM)

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Re: Writing Moodle's Course Search plugin

by Brian King -

Sounds great, happy to to hear about it!  Will you be doing this work on a public git repository someplace?

I've been pondering something along those lines too, but with Elasticsearch as the store.  I've just been pondering, I have absolutely nothing concrete at the moment smile.  So I'd be happy to see your work developing, and might even be able to contribute.

I'm not sure how the GSoC things work - if collaboration during the Summer is OK or not.

Anyway, sounds like a cool project!  A better search in Moodle will be quite nice.

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Re: Writing Moodle's Course Search plugin

by Shashikant Vaishnav -

Hi Brian,

yah ! You can look over the initial code pushed on my public repository[1]. 

I will suggest to have a look over the doc specification[2] that will clear out why Apache Solr is choosen.

your suggestion & improvements towards the plugin development is welcomed.

Thanks again smile

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