Laravel 5.* - Elasticsearch setup guide

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Lets discuss about how to setup Elasticsearch in Laravel 5.* framework.

Step 1:
Add elasticsearch and elasticsearch development packages to composer jason and composer update.

"elasticsearch/elasticsearch": "~2.0",
"elasticquent/elasticquent": "dev-master",

Currently i'm using elastic search 1.5. So that ii have to download elasticsearch 2.0. you can download latest version.

Then register elastic in laravel. Go to config/app.php add

Elasticquent\ElasticquentServiceProvider::class, to providers 
'Es' => Elasticquent\ElasticquentElasticsearchFacade::class, to aliases 

Create elasticquent.php file in config, add followings to it. You can 
define settings in here. (Name of your elastic indexes)

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Step 2

Then create elastic search model for create, update and reindex data 
to indexes. 
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Step 3

For every model need to add $table, $primaryKey, $searchFields and 
constructor.

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Step 4
need to create index when saving new data to database. 
Sample code:

if(config('app.ElasticsearchSync')) {    // Save to ES Index    self::where('comp_id', $company->comp_id)->first()->addToIndex();
    User::where('id', $emp_id)->first()->addToIndex($company->comp_id);}

Need to update index when update database.

Sample code: 

if(config('app.ElasticsearchSync')) {    // Update ES Index    self::getCompanyByCompId($company->comp_id)->updateIndex();}

Step 5:

Get data from elastic search index

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Laravel 5.* - Elasticsearch setup guide