Get started with the serverless PHP client
editGet started with the serverless PHP client
edit[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
This page guides you through the installation process of the PHP client for Elasticsearch Serverless, shows you how to initialize the client, and how to perform basic Elasticsearch operations with it.
Requirements
edit- PHP 8.0 or higher installed on your system.
Installation
editUsing the command line
editYou can install the PHP client using composer with the following commands:
composer require elastic/elasticsearch-serverless
Initialize the client
editInitialize the client using your API key and Elasticsearch Endpoint:
require 'vendor/autoload.php'; use Elastic\Elasticsearch\Serverless\ClientBuilder; $client = ClientBuilder::create() ->setEndpoint('<elasticsearch-endpoint>') ->setApiKey('<api-key>') ->build();
To get API keys or the Elasticsearch Endpoint for a project, see Get started.
Using the API
editAfter you’ve initialized the client, you can start ingesting documents. You can
use the bulk
API for this. This API enables you to index, update, and delete
several documents in one request.
Creating an index and ingesting documents
editYou can call the bulk
API with a body parameter, an array of actions (index)
and documents.
The following is an example of indexing some classic books into the books
index:
$body = [ [ "index" => [ "_index" => "books" ]], [ "name" => "Snow Crash", "author" => "Neal Stephenson", "release_date" => "1992-06-01", "page_count" => 470], [ "index" => [ "_index" => "books" ]], [ "name" => "Revelation Space", "author" => "Alastair Reynolds", "release_date" => "2000-03-15", "page_count" => 585], [ "index" => [ "_index" => "books" ]], [ "name" => "1984", "author" => "George Orwell", "release_date" => "1949-06-08", "page_count" => 328], [ "index" => [ "_index" => "books" ]], [ "name" => "Fahrenheit 451", "author" => "Ray Bradbury", "release_date" => "1953-10-15", "page_count" => 227], [ "index" => [ "_index" => "books" ]], [ "name" => "Brave New World", "author" => "Aldous Huxley", "release_date" => "1932-06-01", "page_count" => 268], [ "index" => [ "_index" => "books" ]], [ "name" => "The Handmaid's Tale", "author" => "Margaret Atwood", "release_date" => "1985-06-01", "page_count" => 311] ]; $response = $client->bulk(body: $body); # You can check the response if the items are indexed and have an ID print_r($response['items']);
When you use the client to make a request to Elasticsearch, it returns an API response object. This object implements the PSR-7 interface, that means you can check the for the HTTP status using the following method:
print($response->getStatusCode());
or get the HTTP response headers using the following:
print_r($response->getHeaders());
or reading the HTTP response body as follows:
print($response->getBody()->getContents()); # or using the asString() dedicated method print($response->asString());
The response body can be accessed as associative array or as object.
var_dump($response['items']); # associative array var_dump($response->items); # object
There are also methods to render the response as array, object, string and boolean values.
var_dump($response->asArray()); // response body content as array var_dump($response->asObject()); // response body content as object var_dump($response->asString()); // response body as string (JSON) var_dump($response->asBool()); // true if HTTP response code between 200 and 300
Getting documents
editYou can get documents by using the following code:
$response = $client->get(index: "books", id: $id);
Searching
editYou can search your documents using the search
API:
# Search for all the books written by Ray Bradbury $query = [ 'query' => [ 'match' => [ 'author' => 'Ray Bradbury' ]]]; $response = $client->search(index: "books", body: $query); printf("Documents found: %d\n", $response['hits']['total']['value']); # total documents found print_r($response['hits']['hits']); # list of books
For more information about the search
API’s query parameters and the response type,
refer to the
Search API
docs.
Updating documents
editYou can call the update
API to update a document:
$id = '<insert the document ID>'; # update the "page_count" value to 300 $body = [ "doc" => [ "page_count" => 300 ]]; $response = $client->update(index: "books", id: $id, body: $body); printf("Operation result: %s\n", $response['result']); # You get 'updated' as a result.
Deleting documents
editYou can call the delete
API to delete a document:
$id = '<insert the document ID>'; $response = $client->delete(index: "books", id: $id); printf("Operation result: %s\n", $response['result']); # You get "deleted" a as result.
Deleting an index
editYou can delete an entire index as follows:
$response = $client->indices()->delete(index: "books"); if ($response['acknowledged']) { print("Index successfully removed!"); }