ElasticSearch and searching on multiple fields in PHP

Question

I am using the latest version of elasticsearch-php as well as the latest version of MongoDB and ElasticSearch.

I need to do a search on multiple fields that can contain one or multiple values. Example:

country_code should be either NL, BE or DE AND category should contain be AA01, BB01, CC02 or ZZ11

I thought I would solve it as followed (PHP):

$countries = array(“NL”, “BE”, “DE”);
$category = array(“AA01”, “BB01”, “CC02”, “ZZ11”);

$searchParams['body']['query']['bool']['must']['terms']['country'] = $countries;
$searchParams['body']['query']['bool']['must']['terms']['categories'] = $category;
$searchParams['body']['query']['bool']['must']['terms']['minimum_should_match'] = 1;

But the result does not even come close the the data that I expect to get back.

Sometimes $countries and/or $category can only have one element.

That is because of how arrays in PHP work, you are overwriting the `terms` key each time — Sammaye, Dec 28 '13 at 19:45

Sammaye · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-28T19:53:42.210

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It is becaue of how PHP arrays work, you are overwriting the terms query each time, instead try something along the lines of:

array(
    'body' => array('query' => 
    'bool' => array(
        'must' => array(
            array('terms' => array('country' => implode(' ', $countries))),
            array('terms' => array('category' => implode(' ', $category))),
        )
    )
))

minimum_should_match is useless with must clause of the query.

edited Dec 28 '13 at 19:53

answered Dec 28 '13 at 19:47

Sammaye

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"you are overwriting the terms query each time" - so obvious. Thanks @Sammaye. – Marc Witteveen Dec 28 '13 at 20:17
As a side note This: array('country' => implode(' ', $countries)) does not seem to work, but array('country' => $countries) goes fine. – Marc Witteveen Dec 28 '13 at 20:20
Is it possible to specify an array there without imploding it ? – Happy Coder Feb 27 '15 at 06:02
@HappyCoder I don' believe so, it was one of the things that confused me about ES: that you culd not query by tjhe structure of it's own schema, among other things – Sammaye Feb 27 '15 at 08:15

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