RollerworksSearch is a powerful search-system for PHP. Created to make searching in a PHP powered application as simple and fast as possible.
Whether you want to simply search for users in your SQL database, want to provide a powerful search system for searching products using an ElasticSearch back-end or are looking for a way to abstract filtering for a reporter.
⚠️ You are browsing the code of upcoming RollerworksSearch v2.0 which is not considered ready for production usage yet.
If you are looking for a stable version, please wait for version 2.0, which is planned to enter beta state in early 2019.
A complex data is structure is no problem, say your customer data is stored in the "customer" table, the "invoices" data is stored in it's own table, and the details of the invoices (obviously) have there own table.
Instead of writing a very verbose SQL query, your users can simple use the user-friendly StringQuery syntax:
invoice_price: > $20.00; invoice_row_label: ~*"my cool product"; customer_type: !consumer.
You just searched in three relational tables using a single condition with a user-friendly syntax. And that is just the start, RollerworksSearch can work with any local, custom input format, or storage system.
Coming-up: SmartQuery, provide a number of terms and let the system handle the condition building.
RollerworksSearch provides you with most of the features you would expect from a search system, including:
- Input processing for the most common formats (XML and JSON). Plus, a special format called StringQuery with a user-friendly syntax.
- Condition optimizing for smaller memory usage and faster results.
And support for the most poplar storage systems.
Search conditions can be as simple or complex as you need them to be. Including grouping and nesting for the best possible result.
RollerworksSearch can be used with any Framework of your choice, but for the best possible experience use the provided framework integration plug-ins.
- Symfony Bundle
- ZendFramework2 Plugin (coming soon)
- Silex Plugin (coming soon)
Your favorite framework not listed? No problem, read the Contributing Guidelines on how you can help!
Please ignore the instructions below if your use a framework integration. Read the Documentation for master for complete instructions and information.
Install the RollerworksSearch "core" library using Composer:
$ composer install rollerworks/searchAnd create the SearchFactory to get started.
use Rollerworks\Component\Search\Searches;
use Rollerworks\Component\Search\Exception\InvalidSearchConditionException;
use Rollerworks\Component\Search\Extension\Core\Type\TextType;
use Rollerworks\Component\Search\Extension\Core\Type\IntegerType;
use Rollerworks\Component\Search\Extension\Core\Type\ChoiceType;
use Rollerworks\Component\Search\Input\StringQueryInput;
// The factory is reusable, you create it only once.
$searchFactory = Searches::createSearchFactory();
// Create a fieldset to inform the system about your configuration.
// Usually you will have a FieldSet for each data structure (users, invoices, etc).
$userFieldSet = $searchFactory->createFieldSetBuilder()
->add('firstName', TextType::class)
->add('lastName', TextType::class)
->add('age', IntegerType::class)
->add('gender', ChoiceType::class, [
'choices' => ['Female' => 'f', 'Male' => 'm'],
])
->getFieldSet('users');
// Now lets process a simple string query.
// Tip: the input processor is reusable.
$inputProcessor = new StringQueryInput();
try {
// The ProcessorConfig allows to limit the amount of values, groups
// and maximum nesting level.
$processorConfig = new ProcessorConfig($userFieldSet);
// The `process` method processes the input and produces
// a valid SearchCondition (or throws an exception when something is wrong).
$condition = $inpurProcessor->process('firstName: sebastiaan, melany;');
} catch (InvalidSearchConditionException $e) {
// Each error message can be easily transformed to a localized version.
// Read the documentation for more details.
foreach ($e->getErrors() as $error) {
echo (string) $error.PHP_EOL;
}
}That's it! The $condition contains the search condition in a normalized
data format which can be used in a condition processor (like ElasticSearch),
or be easily exported into another format like XML or JSON.
Note: RollerworksSearch is composed of multiple separate packages (to keep the architecture slim), the "core" package provides everything you need to get started.
To actually perform a search operation in a (web) application, you would properly want to use the rollerworks/http-search-processor (coming soon) to take care of the heavy lifting.
Each field type ensures the value is transformed to the correct format,
eg. a date input is automatically transformed to a DateTime object.
A field that expects an integer will fail when the provided input is not an integer.
To enforce more strict constraints like a maximum amount for an integer field you can use a custom validator, read the documentation for supported implementations or creating your own.
- Read the Documentation for master
- RollerworksSearch is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines
RollerworksSearch is brought to you by Sebastiaan Stok.
RollerworksSearch is released under the MIT license.
The types and extensions are largely inspired on the Symfony Form Component, and contain a big amount of code from the Symfony project.
[Join the chat] or use the issue tracker if your question is to complex for quick support.
Note: RollerworksSearch doesn't have a support forum at the moment, if you know a good free service let us know by opening an issue 👍
This is an open source project. If you'd like to contribute, please read the Contributing Guidelines. If you're submitting a pull request, please follow the guidelines in the Submitting a Patch section.
Note: RollerworksSearch is developed in a monolith repository, do not open pull request
against repositories marked as [READ-ONLY], thank you.