Document Operations

The elasticsearch-php-client provides a comprehensive set of operations for working with documents in Elasticsearch.

Available Document Operations

• Indexing Documents - Adding documents to an index
• Getting Documents - Retrieving documents by ID
• Updating Documents - Modifying existing documents
• Deleting Documents - Removing documents
• Bulk Operations - Performing multiple operations in a single request

Document Structure

In Elasticsearch, documents are JSON objects stored in an index. Each document has:

• An index name (where it’s stored)
• A unique ID (either provided or auto-generated)
• A source (the actual JSON data)

All document operations in the elasticsearch-php-client follow a similar pattern:

<?php
use Zvonchuk\Elastic\Core\IndexRequest;  // or other request types

$request = new IndexRequest('my_index');  // Specify the index
$request->id('document_id');              // Specify the document ID
$request->source([                        // Provide the document source
    'field1' => 'value1',
    'field2' => 'value2'
]);

$response = $client->index($request);     // Execute the operation

Browse the sections to learn more about each document operation.