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Using Elasticsearch in Laravel

Original – Jan 17th 2015 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Elasticsearch is a lightning quick open source search server. It's java-based (but don't let that scare you) and can index and search documents. If you want to know more about it, watch this excellent talk by Ben Corlett.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waTWeJeFp4A

For a recent Laravel project I had to index some data. In the process I've created a small package to talk to Elasticsearch in a clean way.

Basically it provides:

an interface that makes your objects searchable
some easy to use functions to put those objects into the search index
a function to retrieve search results from the index

You'll find more detailed instructions and some examples on Github.

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