laravel pagination with search wrong links - laravel

Question

I am trying to apply laravel pagination with search functionality.
So far I have tried both live search with laravel pagination and that keeps failing and normal search with pagination where I got better results but still not working.
Here is what I last tried for normal search with pagination:
ProjectController:
public function index()
{
$projects = Project::paginate(6);
return view('dashboard.projects.index',['projects' => $projects]);
}
public function search(Request $request)
{
$q = $request->input('q');
if(!empty($q)){
//dd("search");
$projects = Project::where('name', 'LIKE', '%' . $q . "%")->orderBy('created_at','desc')->paginate(6)->setPath('');
$projects->appends(['q' => $request->input('q')]);
return view ( 'dashboard.projects.index')->with('projects',$projects);
}
return redirect('/dashboard/projects/');
}
dashboard.projects.index
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row section-primary">
#foreach($projects as $project)
<div class="col-12 col-md-4 mb-2">
<div class="card project h-100">
<div class="card-header">
<h4>{{$project->name}}</h4>
</div>
<div class="card-body">
<p><strong>Project Manager:</strong> {{$project->manager_name}}</p>
<p class="description">{{ substr($project->description, 0, 110) }}...</p>
<div class="display-flex">
<div>View</div>
<div>Edit</div>
<div>Members</div>
<div>
{!!Form::open(['action' => ['ProjectController#destroy', $project->id], 'method' => 'POST','class' => 'form-link'])!!}
{{Form::hidden('_method', 'DELETE')}}
{{Form::submit('Delete', ['class' => 'button-link'])}}
{!!Form::close()!!}
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
#endforeach
</div>
</div>
<div>
{!! $projects->links()!!}
</div>
The code works fine when I go to dashboard/projects and pagination works.
The search works but pagination fails.
When I press the search button it first goes to dashboard/projects/search
Then when I press page 2 button on pagination it goes to dashboard/projects/search?q=project&page=2, here it is requesting the show function which is unrelated.
PS: Any extra help for live search with pagination would be amazing.

Answer 1

I have managed to fix the problem, for anyone who is facing the same issue, I used in my routes:
Route::resource('/dashboard/projects', 'ProjectController');
Route::any('/dashboard/projects/search', 'ProjectController#search');
For some reasons, /dashboard/projects/search was not a good idea as it was going to the show defined by resource, all I had to do is change:
Route::any('/dashboard/projects/search', 'ProjectController#search');
to
Route::any('/dashboard/project/search', 'ProjectController#search');
so they look like different routes until I find/learn a better solution.
The other solutions is putting the search route first such as:
Route::any('/dashboard/projects/search', 'ProjectController#search');
Route::resource('/dashboard/projects', 'ProjectController');

Answer 2

In larvel => 6 Version:
Input no longer exists In larvel 6,7,8 Version. Use Request instead of Input.
Change $q = $request->input('q'); to $q = $request->q;
Your ProjectController:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Request;
..
..
public function search(Request $request)
{
$q = $request->q;
if(!empty($q)){
//dd("search");
$projects = Project::where('name', 'LIKE', '%' . $q . "%")->orderBy('created_at','desc')->paginate(6)->setPath('');
$projects->appends(['q' => $request->input('q')]);
return view ( 'dashboard.projects.index')->with('projects',$projects);
}
return redirect('/dashboard/projects/');
}