ElasticSearch Driver for Laravel Scout

 Explorer is a next-gen Elasticsearch driver for Laravel Scout with the power of Elasticsearch’s queries. It provides a compatible Scout driver, as well as additional conveniences. For example, the Explored interface defines a mappableAs() method for getting configuration:

 1namespace App\Models;
 2 
 3use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
 4use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
 5use JeroenG\Explorer\Application\Explored;
 6use Laravel\Scout\Searchable;
 7 
 8class Post extends Model implements Explored
 9{
10    use HasFactory;
11    use Searchable;
12 
13    protected $fillable = ['title', 'published'];
14 
15    public function mappableAs(): array
16    {
17        return [
18            'id' => 'keyword',
19            'title' => 'text',
20            'published' => 'boolean',
21            'created_at' => 'date',
22        ];
23    }
24}

Then in your explorer config you can reference the model under indexes like so:

1return [
2    'indexes' => [
3        \App\Models\Post::class
4    ],
5];

Apart from the standard features you get out-of-the-box with Laravel Scout, Explorer provides a way to use query builders to write more complex queries. The advanced queries documentation has an example of using the query builder functionality with this package:

1$posts = Post::search('lorem')
2    ->must(new Matching('title', 'ipsum'))
3    ->should(new Terms('tags', ['featured'], 2))
4    ->filter(new Term('published', true))
5    ->get();

The package also provides a few commands to manage indexes and search via the CLI:

1# create indexes
2php artisan elastic:create
3 
4# delete indexes
5php artisan elastic:delete
6 
7# search indexes
8php artisan elastic:search "App\Models\Post" lorem