# Elastica php question

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastica-php-question/63411>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 19, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastica-php-question/63411 "2016-10-19T14:51:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![minniek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@minniek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/minniek)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastica-php-question/63411/1 "2016-10-19T14:51:37Z")

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I am looking to translate this code to ElasticaPHP  
{  
"constantScore" : {  
"filter" : {  
"query" : {  
"query\_string" : {  
"query" : "this AND that OR thus"  
}  
}  
}  
}  
}

I can not find the function to add a query\_string to an Aggregation\_Filter

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![polyfractal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/polyfractal/32/48162_2.png) [@polyfractal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/polyfractal)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastica-php-question/63411/2 "2016-10-19T17:05:15Z")

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Paging @ruflin 🙂

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastica-php-question/63411/3 "2016-10-24T07:12:46Z")

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@minniek Sorry for the late reply, was on vacation.

About your question above: You can use the `setFilter` method to add any query (including `QueryString` as long as it is of the type `AbstractQuery`. Perhaps you can share some of your Elastica code you tried and didn't work?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastica-php-question/63411/4 "2017-07-05T22:10:18Z")

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