In previous post, I show how to manage indices in Elasticsearch using elasticsearch-php library. In this post, I will show how to index document with this library.
Search engine Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a distributed, open-source search and analytics engine that is designed for scaling and handling large volumes of structured and unstructured data. It is built on top of the Apache Lucene search library, and provides a flexible and powerful search and analytics platform that can be used to index, search, and analyze data in real-time.
I already wrote on this blog about elasticsearch-php library maintained by Elastic, the firm that created Elasticsearch. It's my first choice when I need to add Elasticsearch to a project. This library wrap the whole REST API of Elasticsearch including indices management and this is the subject of this post. How to manage indices with elasticsearch-php.
How to use Elasticsearch in a Symfony project? Which librairy or bundle to choose? I often read these questions on community slack. I'm not going to write a complete guide, but I give you my point of view on different tools I used in the past or still use.
Elastic provides a light weight PHP library: elasticsearch-php to connect to Elasticsearch cluster. This Library is an API client with all possible options. It's light weight and lets developer chose implementation to use it. It's a very good alternative to Elastica and his abstraction layer. On this blog I'm using elasticseach-php with Twig to manage my indices and query Elasticsearch.