Installation

Elasticsearch-php can be used starting from PHP 7.4. To install the library you need to use composer with the following command:

composer require elasticsearch/elasticsearch

If you don’t have composer you can install it as follows:

curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install

More information about Composer can be found at their website.

When you have installed elasticsearch-php you can start using it with the Client class. You can use the ClientBuilder class to create this object, as follows:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$client = Elastic\Elasticsearch\ClientBuilder::create()->build();

+ Client instantiation is performed with a static helper function create(). This creates a ClientBuilder object, which helps you to set custom configurations. When you are done configuring, call the build() method to generate a Client object. For further info, consult the Configuration section.