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Match Queryedit

Here is a standard curl for a Match query:

curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/my_index/my_type/_search' -d '{
    "query" : {
        "match" : {
            "testField" : "abc"
        }
    }
}'

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And here is the same query constructed in the client:

$params['index'] = 'my_index';
$params['type']  = 'my_type';
$params['body']['query']['match']['testField'] = 'abc';

$results = $client->search($params);

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Using Raw JSON

As you can see, the translation between JSON and query is very straightforward. You could serialize JSON directly into the body, or even provide the raw JSON string. The client will handle it just fine:

$json = '{
    "query" : {
        "match" : {
            "testField" : "abc"
        }
    }
}';

$params['index'] = 'my_index';
$params['type']  = 'my_type';
$params['body']  = $json;

$results = $client->search($params);

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The search results that come back are simply elasticsearch response elements serialized into an array. Working with the search results is as simple as iterating over the array values:

$milliseconds = $results['took'];
$maxScore     = $results['hits']['max_score'];

$score = $results['hits']['hits'][0]['_score'];
$doc   = $results['hits']['hits'][0]['_source'];

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