Algolia highlighting in Laravel 5.3 - php

I am using Laravel 5.3 and Algolia,
I want to highlight the search result,I read the documentation but I still don't know how to do it.
https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-client/php/parameters#attributestohighlight
Any ideas?

When search results are returned from Algolia, they will wrap the "highlighted part" with <em> </em> tags by default. This happens right out of the box, so all you really need to do is use CSS to customize the look of <em>s within your search results div to get the effect you want.
Of course if you prefer that they wrap highlighted text in something other than <em> then you can customize it with anything you wish (such as maybe a span tag with a "highlighted-search" class or something). You customize this when initializing the search in your PHP.
$index = $client->initIndex('contacts');
$result = $index->search('search query', ['attributesToRetrieve' => 'firstname,lastname', 'hitsPerPage' => 50, 'highlightPreTag' => '<span class="highlighted-search">', 'highlightPostTag' => '</span>']);
Now let's say you search 'John D' and submit that search query. Algolia will return a string to the effect of:
<span class="highlighted-search">John D</span>oe
Now with your CSS you customize it like
span.highlighted-search {
background-color:yellow;
}
and now it will highlight the search query with yellow.
Of course this is all assuming you want the static (PHP Library) server side search results. I highly recommend that you use the autocomplete.js library so you can get live search results as you type. This requires using the js libraries to return results client-side while the user types. It is a much better experience.

In each item returned by the search engine, there is an extra "_highlightResult" attribute that contains some metadata and the value of the searchable attributes modified with search terms surrounded with <em>.
For instance, for the search term "toux", the returned JSON will looks like:
{
"medicament" : "VICKS TOUX SECHE 7,33 mg ADULTES MIEL, pastille",
"_highlightResult" : {
"medicament" : {
"value" : "VICKS <em>TOUX</em> SECHE 7,33 mg ADULTES MIEL, pastille",
"matchedWords" : ["toux"]
....
...
}
To highlight the search results, with the search terms, you simply have to display the attribute value under "_highlightResult" instead of the raw one.
If you are not using it already, I would recommend you to use Instantsearch.js.
Highlighting the typed keywords of the search results is dealt whitin the hits widget the same way, in its templates.item parameter.
You may find live code example of this feature here https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch.js/examples/

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