Laravel-Elasticsearch

An easy way to use the official Elastic Search client in your Laravel applications.

• Installation and Configuration
• Usage
• Bugs, Suggestions and Contributions
• Copyright and License

Installation and Configuration

Install the cviebrock/laravel-elasticsearch package via composer:

composer require cviebrock/laravel-elasticsearch

Publish the configuration file. For Laravel 5:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Cviebrock\LaravelElasticsearch\ServiceProvider"

In order to make this package also work with Laravel 4, we can't do the standard configuration publishing like most Laravel 4 packages do. You will need to simply copy the configuration file into your application's configuration folder:

cp vendor/cviebrock/laravel-elasticsearch/config/elasticsearch.php app/config/

Add the service provider and facade (config/app.php for Laravel 5 or app/config/app.php for Laravel 4):

'providers' => [
    ...
    Cviebrock\LaravelElasticsearch\ServiceProvider::class,
]

'aliases' => [
    ...
    'Elasticsearch' => Cviebrock\LaravelElasticsearch\Facade::class,
]

Usage

The Elasticsearch facade is just an entry point into the ES client, so previously you might have used:

$data = [
    'body' => [
        'testField' => 'abc'
    ],
    'index' => 'my_index',
    'type' => 'my_type',
    'id' => 'my_id',
];

$client = ClientBuilder::create()->build();
$return = $client->index($data);

You can now replace those last two lines with simply:

$return = Elasticsearch::index($data);

That will run the command on the default connection. You can run a command on any connection (see the defaultConnection setting and connections array in the configuration file).

$return = Elasticsearch::connection('connectionName')->index($data);

Bugs, Suggestions and Contributions

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this project!

Please use Github for bugs, comments, suggestions.

1. Fork the project.
2. Create your bugfix/feature branch and write your (well-commented) code.
3. Create unit tests for your code:
   • Run composer install --dev in the root directory to install required testing packages.
   • Add your test methods to laravel-elasticsearch/tests/.
   • Run vendor/bin/phpunit to the new (and all previous) tests and make sure everything passes.
4. Commit your changes (and your tests) and push to your branch.
5. Create a new pull request against the master branch.

Copyright and License

Laravel-Elasticsearch was written by Colin Viebrock and released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Copyright 2015 Colin Viebrock