Laravel search functionality - laravel

Question

I've got a searchbar on my homepage which looks like this:
<form action="{{ route('search', $query) }}" method="GET" role="search">
<div class="input-group mb-4 search_bar">
<input type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search..." aria-describedby="button-addon5" class="form-control search_input">
<div class="input-group-append">
<button id="button-addon5" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary"><i class="fa fa-search"></i></button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
My route looks like this:
Route::get('all-{query}-posts', 'SearchController#index')->where('query', '[A-Za-z0-9-]+')->name('search');
So basically I want the input of the searchbar in my url like this: /all-stuff-posts instead of the usual: ?search=stuff
It seems to automatically add the ?search=stuff to the end even though I didn't add that anywhere so that's the first problem.
The second problem is that I can only retrieve the query in the controller but that gives me an error in web.php because the query is still not set. Is there a different way of doing this that does work?

Answer 1

Change your form action method below like this
<form action="{{url('')}}/all-{{$query}}-posts" ...>

Answer 2

Used Post method.
<form action="{{ route('search', $query) }}" method="POST" role="search">

Answer 3

If you want to develop a search engine in your app, I will suggest the following. (One of the simplest ways).
Learn about POST, GET, PUT first.\
Then, My model like this
public function scopeSearchByKeyword($query, $keyword,$location)
{
if ($keyword!='' and $location!='') {
$query->where(function ($query) use ($keyword,$location) {
$query->where("title", "LIKE","%$keyword%")
->where("location_id", "$location")
->where("status", "1");
});
}
else
{
$query->where(function ($query) use ($keyword) {
$query->where("title", "LIKE","%$keyword%")
->where("status", "1");
});
}
return $query;
}
Here I am searching by title and location. It can output even if only a keyword is entered.
Then my controller like this:
public function search_kasblar(Request $request)
{
$inputs = $request->all();
$keyword = $inputs['search_keyword'];
$location = $inputs['location'];
$jobs= JobBoards::SearchByKeyword($keyword,$location)->get();
$total_res=count($jobs);
return view('jobs.search',compact('jobs','total_res','keyword'));
}
Here we can search for incoming data in the input.
So my view blade like this:
<div class="finderform">
{!! Form::open(array('url' => 'listings/search','class'=>'','id'=>'search','role'=>'form')) !!}
<div class="col-md-5 col-sm-5 no-padding"> <i class="fa fa-search local-search-ic"></i>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="search_keyword" id="input-search-term" title="Search for..." placeholder="Search anything here" value="" autocomplete="off">
</div>
<div class="form-group col-md-5 col-sm-5 no-padding"> <i class="fa fa-map-marker local-search-ic ic-map-location"></i>
<div class="">
<select id="location" name="location" class="form-control">
<option value="">Select Location</option>
#foreach(\App\Location::orderBy('location_name')->get() as $location)
<option value="{{$location->id}}">{{$location->location_name}}</option>
#endforeach
</select>
</div>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn tp-btn-default tp-btn-lg">Search</button>
{!! Form::close() !!}
You can use like this.
And use POST in your router...