Laravel Meilisearch Integration

In this post, you’ll learn how to integrate meilisearch with laravel

Laravel Meilisearch Integration

MeiliSearch is an open source search-engine that will improve search experience.

Install MeiliSearch cURL

curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh

./meilisearch

MeiliSearch Dashboard

MeiliSearch Doc

https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/getting_started/quick_start.html

Install Laravel Scout

install Laravel Scout using composer

composer require laravel/scout

After installing Scout, you should publish the Scout configuration file using the vendor:publish Artisan command.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel\Scout\ScoutServiceProvider"

<?php
 
namespace App\Models;
 
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Laravel\Scout\Searchable;
 
class Product extends Model
{
    use Searchable;
}

Install MeiliSearch PHP Driver

composer require meilisearch/meilisearch-php http-interop/http-factory-guzzle

.env Configuration File

SCOUT_DRIVER=meilisearch
MEILISEARCH_HOST=http://127.0.0.1:7700
MEILISEARCH_KEY=masterKey

Add Searchable Trait to Your Model

<?php
 
namespace App\Models;
 
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Laravel\Scout\Searchable;
 
class Product extends Model
{
    use Searchable;
}

Add Searchable Index name to Your Model

<?php
 
namespace App\Models;
 
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Laravel\Scout\Searchable;
 
class Product extends Model
{
    use Searchable;

    /**
     * Get the name of the index associated with the model.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function searchableAs()
    {
        return 'products_index';
    }
}

Import Data to MeiliSearch

If you are installing Scout into an existing project, you may already have database records you need to import into your indexes

php artisan scout:import "App\Models\Product"

MeiliSearch Dashboard & Index Data

MeiliSearch imported data, just go localhost with port 7700.

http://127.0.0.1:7700

Search Model

    public function __invoke(Request $request)
    {
        $query   = $request->get('query');
        $results = Product::search($query)->paginate(20);
        return view('product', compact('results'));
    }

Now you should be able to set up and implement MeiliSearch with Laravel. If you this tutorial to be helpful, do share.