Store and retrieve objects from Algolia or Elasticsearch
Store and retrieve objects from a search index
This is an opinionated Laravel 5.1 package to store and retrieve objects from a search index.
Currently Elasticsearch and Algolia are supported.
Once the package is installed objects can be easily indexed and retrieved:
//$product is an object that implements the Searchable interface
SearchIndex::upsertToIndex($product);
SearchIndex::getResults('look for this');
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Installation
This package can be installed through Composer.
composer require spatie/searchindex
You must install this service provider.
// config/app.php
'providers' => [
...
Spatie\SearchIndex\SearchIndexServiceProvider::class,
];
This package also comes with a facade, which provides an easy way to call the the class.
// config/app.php
'aliases' => [
...
'SearchIndex' => Spatie\SearchIndex\SearchIndexFacade::class,
]
You can publish the config-file with:
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\SearchIndex\SearchIndexServiceProvider"
The options in the config file are set with sane default values and they should
be self-explanatory.
The next installation steps depend on if you want to use Elasticsearch or Algolia.
Elasticsearch
To use Elasticsearch you must install the official 1.x series low level client:
composer require elasticsearch/elasticsearch "^1.3"
You also should have a server with Elasticsearch installed.
If you want to install it on your local development machine you can
use these instructions
from the excellent Vaprobash repo.
Algolia
To use Algolia you must install the official low level client:
composer require algolia/algoliasearch-client-php
Usage
Prepare your object
Objects that you want to store in the index should implement the
provided Spatie\SearchIndex\Searchable- interface.
namespace Spatie\SearchIndex;
interface Searchable {
/**
* Returns an array with properties which must be indexed
*
* @return array
*/
public function getSearchableBody();
/**
* Return the type of the searchable subject
*
* @return string
*/
public function getSearchableType();
/**
* Return the id of the searchable subject
*
* @return string
*/
public function getSearchableId();
Here is an example how you could implement it with an Eloquent model:
class Product extends Eloquent implements Searchable
{
...
/**
* Returns an array with properties which must be indexed
*
* @return array
*/
public function getSearchableBody()
{
$searchableProperties = [
'name' => $this->name,
'brand' => $this->brand->name,
'category' => $this->category->name
];
return $searchableProperties;
}
/**
* Return the type of the searchable subject
*
* @return string
*/
public function getSearchableType()
{
return 'product';
}
/**
* Return the id of the searchable subject
*
* @return string
*/
public function getSearchableId()
{
return $this->id;
}
}
The searchindex will use the returned searchableType and searchableId to
identify an object in the index.
Add an object to the index
If you are using the facade it couldn’t be simpler.
//$product is an object that implements the Searchable interface
SearchIndex::upsertToIndex($product);
Update an object in the index
You probably would have guessed it.
//$product is an object that implements the Searchable interface
SearchIndex::upsertToIndex($product);
Remove an object from the index
Yep. Easy.
//$product is an object that implements the Searchable interface
SearchIndex::removeFromIndex($product);
Alternatively you can remove an object from the index by passing type and id:
SearchIndex::removeFromIndexByTypeAndId('product', 1);
This can be handy when you’ve already deleted your model.
Clear the entire index
If only you could to this with your facebook account.
SearchIndex::clearIndex();
Perform a search on the index
You can retrieve search results with this method:
SearchIndex::getResults($query);
Elasticsearch
$query should be an array that adheres to the scheme provided
by the elasticsearch documentation.
A query to perform a fuzzy like search that operates all fields of the index could
look like this:
$query =
[
'body' =>
[
'from' => 0,
'size' => 500,
'query' =>
[
'fuzzy_like_this' =>
[
'_all' =>
[
'like_text' => 'look for this',
'fuzziness' => 0.5,
],
],
],
]
];
The search results that come back are simply elasticsearch response elements
serialized into an array. You can see an example of a response
in the official elasticsearch documentation.
Algolia
You can just pass a string to search the index:
SearchIndex::getResults('look for this');
To perform more advanced queries an array may be passed. Read
the official documentation to learn what’s possible.
All other operations
For all other operations you can get the underlying client:
SearchIndex::getClient(); // will return the Elasticsearch or Algolia client.
Query helpers
If you’re using Algolia you can use a SearchQuery-object to perform searches.
use Spatie\SearchIndex\Query\Algolia\SearchIndex();
$searchQuery = new SearchQuery();
$searchQuery->searchFor('my query')
->withFacet('facetName', 'facetValue');
//a searchQuery object may be passed to the getResults-function directly.
SearchIndex::getResults($searchQuery);
Tests
This package comes with a set of unit tests. Every time the package
gets updated Travis CI will automatically run them.
You can also run them manually. You’ll have first run composer install --dev to install phpspec. After that’s out of the way you can run the tests with vendor/bin/phpspec run.
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.
Security
If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.
Credits
About Spatie
Spatie is a webdesign agency in Antwerp, Belgium. You’ll find an overview of all
our open source projects on our website.