README

A basic elastic search backed driver for Laravel Scout.

This driver has a simple configuration, requiring you to set the hostname of your elasticsearch node.

Note that this driver uses a separate index for each model type as elasticsearch mapping types have been deprecated in elasticsearch 6.0 and will be removed in 8.0, for more information see https://bit.ly/2TZVZvq.

By default, the driver uses the simple_query_string full text parser with and as the default operator. More information on the functionality & syntax of this query format can be found here.

Requires Scout ^8.0 or ^9.0 & PHP >=7.2. Based on the original work of ErickTamayo (Scout 5/6/7 & elastic search server 5.x are supported by versions of 1.x)

Contents

• Installation
• Upgrading from 1.x --> 2.x
• Usage
• Credits
• License

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require boxed-code/laravel-scout-elasticsearch

If you're using Laravel 5.4, you must add the Scout service provider and the package service provider in your app.php config:

// config/app.php
'providers' => [
    ...
    Laravel\Scout\ScoutServiceProvider::class,
    ...
    ScoutEngines\Elasticsearch\ElasticsearchProvider::class,
],

Add the elastic search configuration

Add the following to your scout configuration:

// config/scout.php
// Set your driver to elasticsearch
    'driver' => env('SCOUT_DRIVER', 'elasticsearch'),

...
    'elasticsearch' => [
        'debug' => false,
        'hosts' => [
            env('ELASTICSEARCH_HOST', 'http://localhost'),
        ],
    ],
...

Upgrading from 1.x -> 2.x

If you are upgrading from 1.x -> 2.x and are using an elastic server version < 7.x you will need to constrain the version of the base elastic driver used in your composer.json. For example if you're running 6.x:

composer require elasticsearch/elasticsearch:^6.0

** Remember: When you upgrade your server version to 7.x you will need to remove the package or upgrade it to the 7.x driver. **

Usage

Now you can use Laravel Scout as described in the official documentation

Credits

• Oliver Green
• Erick Tamayo
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT).