Amazon CloudSearch Domains¶

This guide focuses on the AWS SDK for PHP client for Amazon CloudSearch domains. The CloudSearchDomainClient allows you to search and upload documents to your CloudSearch domains. This guide assumes that you have already downloaded and installed the AWS SDK for PHP. See Installation for more information on getting started.

Creating a client¶

First you need to create a client object using one of the following techniques.

Factory method¶

Similar to the way other service clients are used, you can instantiate the CloudSearchDomainClient with the Aws\CloudSearchDomain\CloudSearchDomainClient::factory() method.

use Aws\CloudSearchDomain\CloudSearchDomainClient;

$client = CloudSearchDomainClient::factory(array(
    'profile'  => '<profile in your aws credentials file>',
    'endpoint' => '<your cloudsearch domain endpoint>'
));

The CloudSearchDomainClient is unlike other clients, because it does not require you to provide a region. Instead, you must provide the endpoint option, which represents the domain's endpoint. Domain endpoints are unique to each domain, and you can get it using the DescribeDomains operation of the Amazon CloudSearch configuration client.

Service builder¶

Again, similar to other service clients, you can use the service builder to instantiate the client. This allows you to specify credentials and other configuration settings in a configuration file. These settings can then be shared across all clients so that you only have to specify your settings once.

use Aws\Common\Aws;

// Create a service builder using a configuration file
$aws = Aws::factory('/path/to/my_config.json');

// Get the client from the builder
$client = $aws->get('CloudSearchDomain');

Note: This assumes that your configuration file has been setup to include the endpoint option for the CloudSearch Domain service. If it is not, you can provide it manually when calling get().

$client = $aws->get('cloudsearchdomain', array(
    'endpoint' => '<your cloudsearch domain endpoint>'
));

For more information about configuration files, see Configuring the SDK.

Unauthenticated requests¶

The CloudSearchDomainClient can also be used without credentials if you have configured your domain's policy to allow anonymous access. To make the CloudSearchDomainClient anonymous, set 'credentials' to false.

// Using the client factory
$domainClient = $client = CloudSearchDomainClient::factory(array(
    'endpoint'    => '<your cloudsearch domain endpoint>'
    'credentials' => false,
));

// Using the service builder
$domainClient = $aws->get('cloudsearchdomain', array(
    'endpoint'    => '<your cloudsearch domain endpoint>'
    'credentials' => false,
));

Note: Credentials work the same way with the CloudSearchDomainClient as they do with other clients. To learn more, see Providing Credentials to the SDK.

Using the client¶

Here is an example of a simple search.

// Use the search operation
$result = $domainClient->search(array('query' => 'foobar'));
$hitCount = $result->getPath('hits/found');
echo "Number of Hits: {$hitCount}\n";

You can find more information on the parameters supported in the Search operation by reading the API reference.

API Reference¶

Please see the Amazon CloudSearch Domain Client API reference for a details about all of the available methods, including descriptions of the inputs and outputs.

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