Easily filter and search

Topics

• Introduction
• Concept
• Installation
• Usage

Introduction

Always in laravel, the filter of database fields and search inside that, it's repetitive work, but you can with use this package create filters very easy.

Concept

This work with GET method and query string. When this receives query string, parses this query string to this characters:

Symbol	Do	Usage	Example
:	separating field from value	Field:value	title:phone
-	separating range of values	value1-value2	price:0-100
,	separating fields fo filter from sort method	Field:value,sort	title:phone,asc
By	separating field of sorting from sort method	Field:value,sortByField	title:phone,ascByprice

Installation

composer require hchamran/laravel-filter  

(For Laravel <=5.4) Next, you must add the service provider to config/app.php config/app.php :

'providers' => [  
    // for laravel 5.4 and below  
    HChamran\LaravelFilter\Providers\FilterServiceProvider::class,  
]  

Publish your config file

php artisan vendor:publish  

Usage

First use filterable in your model:

use Filterable;  

Second make filter class with this command for Example:

php artisan make:filter UserFilter  

Third, add fields which you want to search inside it for example for products:

public function fields()  
{  
  return [  
  'title', 'excerpt', 'price'  
  ];  
}

And in final just do search with helper:

filter(thisIsField, thisIsValue)

<a href="{{ filter('price', '0-50') }}">Low Price</a>