Creating a filtered search based on different parameters - laravel

Question

i need to create a filtered search based on different paramnters chosen by a user. So, for example, my app is a property app. I want them to be able to define the county, town, max,min bedrooms ect from a dropdown list and press search, and this returns all the properties that match the criteria.
How do I go about doing this? I can't find any tutorials online, but maybe I'm not phrasing it right.
Here is an image of what I'm after from a UI point of view.
https://imgur.com/a/YEEqt

Answer 1

The following is an easy to go solution considering your experience.
Create a new controller or a method in an existing one.
First create a simple form (method GET) in blade that will return predefined values from simple hidden fields
Create a new GET route in which the form must be submitted and link it to the controller method that you created
In your controller method get the submitted form data from your request, make the correct queries and return the blade template file that contains the form with the results
Modify blade template to show results
Finally replace the hidden fields with selects drop-downs and modify your controller in order to populate them
You can make the form submission process and the select drop-down fields population asynchronous but based on your experience with Laravel it should be hard. Following the steps above will do your job.
Always take a look to the official documentation. You will ge a lot of help from there.

Answer 2

You can try like this for filter options in your controller
public function filter(Request $request, Property $property)
{
$property = $property->newQuery();
// Search for a property based on country
if ($request->has('country')) {
return $property->where('country', $request->input('country'));
}
// Search for a property based on their area.
if ($request->has('areas')) {
return $property->where('areas', $request->input('areas'));
}
// Search for a property based on max_price
if ($request->has('max_price')) {
return $property->where('price','<=', $request->input('max_price'));
}
// Continue for all of the filters.
return $property->get();
}
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