Algolia Search is a search API that provides hosted full-text, numerical and faceted search. Algolia’s Search API makes it easy to deliver a great search experience in your apps & websites providing:
- REST and JSON-based API
- search among infinite attributes from a single searchbox
- instant-search after each keystroke
- relevance & popularity combination
- typo-tolerance in any language
- faceting
- 99.99% SLA
- first-class data security
This module let you easily integrate the Algolia Search API to your Magento instance. The module is based on algoliasearch-client-php and algoliasearch-client-js.
To setup this module using the packaged Community Extension, download the last version from our releases directory and upload it on your Magento instance.
To setup this module using modman (a module manager for Magento) run the following commands:
$ cd /path/to/your/magento/directory
$ modman init
$ modman clone https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-magento.gitTo setup this module using Composer (a dependency manager for PHP), just add "algolia/algoliasearch-magento": "*" to your composer.json file.
This extension adds an auto-completion menu to your search bar displaying products and categories "as-you-type".
This extension is also able to replace the default full-text search engine handling typo-tolerance.
To setup this module, you'll need an Algolia account. Just sign up here to create an account and retrieve your credentials.
Once the extension is installed, a new Algolia Search menu will appear in your System > Configuration menu.
In the configuration panel, you'll be able to setup your credentials as well as some other configuration variables.
To replace the full-text search engine of your Magento instance, please select Algolia in your System > Catalog > Catalog Search > Search Engine section:
Once configured, do not forget to trigger the re-indexing in System > Index Management:
Feel free to update the default style modifying skin/frontend/base/default/algoliasearch/algoliasearch.css.
We're dispatching events allowing you to customize the default behavior of the extension. You can add observers on the following events:
algolia_product_index_before: triggered for each product, ability to add custom attributes using$observer->getCustomData().algolia_category_index_before: triggered for each category, ability to add custom attributes using$observer->getCustomData().
If you want to build an instant-search based result page refreshing the whole page (results, pagination & navigation filters) “as you type” you can follow this tutorial.
