Meilisearch Light PHP Client

Meilisearch Light PHP Client is a PHP library for using a Meilisearch server in PHP.

PHP 5.6+ compatible unlike official clients (meilisearch-php and meilisearch-symfony) that allow PHP 7.4 or 8.0.

Requirements

• Meilisearch server URL
• Search API Key
• Admin API Key

Installation

With Composer, run this command:

composer require shevabam/meilisearch-light-php-client

Usage

Request

First, include the library in your code using the Composer autoloader:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

Then, create an MeilisearchLightClient object with some paremeters:

$host = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:7700';
$searchKey = 'yyy';
$adminKey = 'zzz';

$Request = new MeilisearchLighClient\Request($host);

Make a call:

$params = ['key' => $adminKey];
$Request->call($params, 'GET', 'indexes');

The call method takes as a parameter:

• the parameters (see below)
• the HTTP method (GET, POST, PUT, ...)
• the endpoint (corresponds to the Meilisearch query)
• the data to transmit: can be a file (must start with @) or an array

The parameters allow you to specify the API key to use (search or admin) as well as the headers if necessary:

$params = [
    'key' => $searchKey,
    'headers' => ['Content-type: application/json'],
];

Response

To check that a request is valid, use the isOk() method:

if ($Request->isOk())
{
    $Response = $Request->getResponse();
        
    var_dump($Response->get()); // Response content
}
else
{
    echo $Request->getHttpStatus();
}

By default, the return is an object. To get an array:

$Response = $Request->getResponse(true);

Examples

List of indexes:

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$host = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:7700';
$searchKey = 'yyy';
$adminKey = 'zzz';

$Request = new MeilisearchLightClient\Request($host);

$params = ['key' => $adminKey];

$Request->call($params, 'GET', 'indexes');

$response_content = null;
if ($Request->isOk())
{
    $Response = $Request->getResponse(true);

    $response_content = $Response->get();
}
else
{
    echo $Request->getHttpStatus();
}

echo '<pre>'; print_r($response_content);

Adding documents to an index via a file

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$host = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:7700';
$searchKey = 'yyy';
$adminKey = 'zzz';

$Request = new MeilisearchLightClient\Request($host);

$params = [
    'key' => $adminKey, 
    'headers' => ['Content-type: application/json'],
];

$Request->call($params, 'POST', 'indexes/movies/documents', '@movies.json');

$response_content = null;
if ($Request->isOk())
{
    $Response = $Request->getResponse(true);

    $response_content = $Response->get();
}
else
{
    echo $Request->getHttpStatus();
}

echo '<pre>'; print_r($response_content);

Adding documents to an index via an array

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$host = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:7700';
$searchKey = 'yyy';
$adminKey = 'zzz';

$Request = new MeilisearchLightClient\Request($host);

$params = [
    'key' => $adminKey, 
    'headers' => ['Content-type: application/json'],
];

$datas = [
    [
        'id' => 1,
        'title' => 'Sharknado',
    ],
    [
        'id' => 2,
        'title' => 'Phone Booth',
    ],
    [
        'id' => 3,
        'title' => 'Jurassic Park',
    ],
];
$Request->call($params, 'POST', 'indexes/movies/documents', $datas);

$response_content = null;
if ($Request->isOk())
{
    $Response = $Request->getResponse(true);

    $response_content = $Response->get();
}
else
{
    echo $Request->getHttpStatus();
}

echo '<pre>'; print_r($response_content);

Search

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$host = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:7700';
$searchKey = 'yyy';
$adminKey = 'zzz';

$Request = new MeilisearchLightClient\Request($host);

$params = [
    'key' => $searchKey, 
    'headers' => ['Content-type: application/json'],
];

$Request->call($params, 'POST', 'indexes/movies/search', [
    'q' => 'jurassic', 
    'limit' => 50,
    'filter' => 'release_date > '.strtotime(date('2018-01-01')),
]);

$response_content = null;
if ($Request->isOk())
{
    $Response = $Request->getResponse(true);

    $response_content = $Response->get();
}
else
{
    echo $Request->getHttpStatus();
}

echo '<pre>'; print_r($response_content);

Resources

• API Reference Meilisearch
• Quick start Meilisearch