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Installation

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Installation

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Elasticsearch-php only has a three requirements that you need to worry about:

  • PHP 7.0.0 or higher
  • Composer
  • ext-curl: the Libcurl extension for PHP (see note below)
  • Native JSON Extensions (ext-json) 1.3.7 or higher

The rest of the dependencies will automatically be downloaded and installed by Composer. Composer is a package and dependency manager for PHP. Installing elasticsearch-php with Composer is very easy

Libcurl can be replaced

The default HTTP handlers that ship with Elasticsearch-php require the PHP libcurl extension, but it is not technically required for the client to operate. If you have a host that does not have libcurl installed, you can use an alternate HTTP handler based on PHP streams. Performance will suffer, as the libcurl extension is much faster

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