ES Beginner's PHP Script

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
$method = "GET";
$url = "localhost/cerberus/resraw/_search?pretty=true";

$qry = '{
        "size" : 10,
        "fields" : "usr",
                "query" : {
                        "term" : { "usr":"stratawing"}
                }
        }';

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, 9200);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, strtoupper($method));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $qry);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// use the following if you want your result in a php array
//var_dump(json_decode($result, true));

//use the following if you want the raw json format from es
 echo $result;

?>