Display Ubercart sell price in Apache Solr search results

Question

I manage an ubercart store that is indexed by Apache Solr. The search indexes the sell price and it's one of the facets. However, the price is nowhere in search-result.tpl.php. It's also not available in the search results preprocess hook in template.php. Is there somewhere else I can inject it into the search results without performing a separate database query for each search result.

Answer 1

You can index it using solr's dynamic fields (see your schema.xml in the solr conf directory) and a custom module hook, namely hook_apachesolr_update_index().

Then you can, at search time, add the field you have indexed into the fields being fetched. For this you have three hooks or 'hooks' to choose from: hook_apachesolr_prepare_query(), hook_apachesolr_modify_query() and CALLER_finalize_query().

For further information on the hooks, see the README.txt in the apachesolr module directory.

Then in your search-result.tpl.php you'll have available the custom indexed field as $result['fields']['your_field_name'].