Algolia highlighting in Laravel 5.3

Are you using this package by chance https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-laravel?

In this section you should be able to set attributesToHighlight within the array the same way you would as per your Algolia docs link.

@Braunson

I am not using that package,

I am using Scout of Laravel 5.3,

I follow the docs, https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/scout

There is no relevant content in the docs.

Any ideas?

@sunrise

Hmm it seems that settings in Algolia are usually set at the same time as the data indexing. After looking into the Scout repo, there was a pending pull request from Algolia to expose the setSettings method exactly to achieve what you're looking for in order to be able to set your setting to highlight. It was closed 18 days ago but Taylor is on it!

Alternatively for now you can just extend the AlgoliaEngine trait to add this method on your own.

If you try with another driver like tntsearch you'll have access to a highlighter class and would use it like:

use TeamTNT\TNTSearch\TNTSearch;

$articles = Article::search($searchString)->get();
$tnt = new TNTSearch;

$articles = $articles->map(function($article) use ($searchString, $tnt) {
    $article->title = $tnt->highlight($title, $searchString, 'em'),
});

The third argument of the highlight method is the html element you want to use

How on do you do a partial highlight using Algolia / Laravel Scout? I have a very long paragraph and I just need to highlight some of the words found, e.g. "testing" and a couple of words round it.