Elasticsearch completion suggester query in PHP

Question

I was not able to find a working example on how to query Elasticsearch using the completion suggester in PHP (elasticsearch-php).

Querying via CURL, e.g.

Answer 1

Using the PHP elasticsearch API

     'my_index',
           'search_type' =>  'match',
           'search_key' => 'citynamefield',
           'search_value' => 'orlando'
       );
       $search_results = $elastic_search->searchElastic($search_params);
       echo '
';
print_r($search_results);