How to : elastic search + fosElastica + symfony2 + typehead + bloodhound + elastic suggesters

(POST in BETA version, but I prefer release it, and enhance it later, than never publish ^^)

I want to use Elastic, to manage my search functionality.

It’s a symfony2 project, so I start my research by the integration of Elastic in symfony2, and FosElastica came up.
Thanks to FOS #friendOfSymfony2 people again, and again, your work is amazing !
Also nothing happends here without Elastica

This bundle provides integration with ElasticSearch and Elastica with Symfony2. Features include:

Integrates the Elastica library into a Symfony2 environment
Automatically generate mappings using a serializer
Listeners for Doctrine events for automatic indexing

I assume here, you have already a running symfony2 project, with data on it, I use this setup, to search over user, by name, mail, and over another data named « tags », a kind of internal references to group items.

Steps :

1. install Elastic
2. configure Elastic
3. install FosElastica
4. configure FosElastica
5. try with Elastic web interface to confirm 4 firsts sets
6. add typeahead.js to your page
7. configure and implement bloodhound and typeahead
8. …
9. Enjoy !

1 – Install of elasticsearch :

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apt-get install elasticsearch

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(If you are under ubuntu use sudo if you not root, tested on ubuntu 15.10 and Debian 8.)

To have elastic working, I’ve to :

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chmod -R elasticsearch:elasticsearch /var/lib/elasticsearch

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Both debian and ubuntu.

After that, you need to go to :

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cd /etc/elasticsearch/

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and open « elasticsearch.yml » to configure it.

2 – Configuration

(TODO : CORS config + security)

https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-elasticsearch-security

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/how-to-basic-elasticsearch-installation-debian-ubuntu.26163/

3 – Install FosElastica

with composer :

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php composer.phar require friendsofsymfony/elastica-bundle "~3.0"

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And enable it :

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