This Laravel package allows you to search through multiple Eloquent models. It supports sorting, pagination, scoped queries, eager load relationships, and searching through single or multiple columns.
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- PHP 8.2 or higher
- MySQL 8.0+
- Laravel 10.0+
- Search through one or more Eloquent models.
- Support for cross-model pagination.
- Search through single or multiple columns.
- Search through (nested) relationships.
- Support for Full-Text Search, even through relationships.
- Order by (cross-model) columns or by relevance.
- Use constraints and scoped queries.
- Eager load relationships for each model.
- In-database sorting of the combined result.
- Zero third-party dependencies
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If you want to know more about this package's background, please read the blog post.
You can install the package via composer:
composer require protonemedia/laravel-cross-eloquent-search
- The
get
method has been renamed tosearch
. - The
addWhen
method has been removed in favor ofwhen
. - By default, the results are sorted by the updated column, which is the
updated_at
column in most cases. If you don't use timestamps, it will now use the primary key by default.
- The
startWithWildcard
method has been renamed tobeginWithWildcard
. - The default order column is now evaluated by the
getUpdatedAtColumn
method. Previously it was hard-coded toupdated_at
. You still can use another column to order by. - The
allowEmptySearchQuery
method andEmptySearchQueryException
class have been removed, but you can still get results without searching.
Start your search query by adding one or more models to search through. Call the add
method with the model's class name and the column you want to search through. Then call the search
method with the search term, and you'll get a \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection
instance with the results.
The results are sorted in ascending order by the updated column by default. In most cases, this column is updated_at
. If you've customized your model's UPDATED_AT
constant, or overwritten the getUpdatedAtColumn
method, this package will use the customized column. If you don't use timestamps at all, it will use the primary key by default. Of course, you can order by another column as well.
use ProtoneMedia\LaravelCrossEloquentSearch\Search;
$results = Search::add(Post::class, 'title')
->add(Video::class, 'title')
->search('howto');
If you care about indentation, you can optionally use the new
method on the facade:
Search::new()
->add(Post::class, 'title')
->add(Video::class, 'title')
->search('howto');
There's also an when
method to apply certain clauses based on another condition:
Search::new()
->when($user->isVerified(), fn($search) => $search->add(Post::class, 'title'))
->when($user->isAdmin(), fn($search) => $search->add(Video::class, 'title'))
->search('howto');
By default, we split up the search term, and each keyword will get a wildcard symbol to do partial matching. Practically this means the search term apple ios
will result in apple%
and ios%
. If you want a wildcard symbol to begin with as well, you can call the beginWithWildcard
method. This will result in %apple%
and %ios%
.
Search::add(Post::class, 'title')
->add(Video::class, 'title')
->beginWithWildcard()
->search('os');
Note: in previous versions of this package, this method was called startWithWildcard()
.
If you want to disable the behaviour where a wildcard is appended to the terms, you should call the endWithWildcard
method with false
:
Search::add(Post::class, 'title')
->add(Video::class, 'title')
->beginWithWildcard()
->endWithWildcard(false)
->search('os');
Multi-word search is supported out of the box. Simply wrap your phrase into double-quotes.
Search::add(Post::class, 'title')
->add(Video::class, 'title')
->search('"macos big sur"');
You can disable the parsing of the search term by calling the dontParseTerm
method, which gives you the same results as using double-quotes.
Search::add(Post::class, 'title')
->add(Video::class, 'title')
->dontParseTerm()
->search('macos big sur');
If you want to sort the results by another column, you can pass that column to the add
method as a third parameter. Call the orderByDesc
method to sort the results in descending order.
Search::add(Post::class, 'title', 'published_at')
->add(Video::class, 'title', 'released_at')
->orderByDesc()
->search('learn');
You can call the orderByRelevance
method to sort the results by the number of occurrences of the search terms. Imagine these two sentences:
- Apple introduces iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini
- Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in stunning new design
If you search for Apple iPad, the second sentence will come up first, as there are more matches of the search terms.
Search::add(Post::class, 'title')
->beginWithWildcard()
->orderByRelevance()
->search('Apple iPad');
Ordering by relevance is not supported if you're searching through (nested) relationships.
To sort the results by model type, you can use the orderByModel
method by giving it your preferred order of the models:
Search::new()
->add(Comment::class, ['body'])
->add(Post::class, ['title'])
->add(Video::class, ['title', 'description'])
->orderByModel([
Post::class, Video::class, Comment::class,
])
->search('Artisan School');
We highly recommend paginating your results. Call the paginate
method before the search
method, and you'll get an instance of \Illuminate\Contracts\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator
as a result. The paginate
method takes three (optional) parameters to customize the paginator. These arguments are the same as Laravel's database paginator.
Search::add(Post::class, 'title')
->add(Video::class, 'title')
->paginate()
// or
->paginate($perPage = 15, $pageName = 'page', $page = 1)
->search('build');
You may also use simple pagination. This will return an instance of \Illuminate\Contracts\Pagination\Paginator
, which is not length aware:
Search::add(Post::class, 'title')
->add(Video::class, 'title')
->simplePaginate()
// or
->simplePaginate($perPage = 15, $pageName = 'page', $page = 1)
->search('build');
Instead of the class name, you can also pass an instance of the Eloquent query builder to the add
method. This allows you to add constraints to each model.
Search::add(Post::published(), 'title')
->add(Video::where('views', '>', 2500), 'title')
->search('compile');
You can search through multiple columns by passing an array of columns as the second argument.
Search::add(Post::class, ['title', 'body'])
->add(Video::class, ['title', 'subtitle'])
->search('eloquent');
You can search through (nested) relationships by using the dot notation:
Search::add(Post::class, ['comments.body'])
->add(Video::class, ['posts.user.biography'])
->search('solution');
You may use MySQL's Full-Text Search by using the addFullText
method. You can search through a single or multiple columns (using full text indexes), and you can specify a set of options, for example, to specify the mode. You can even mix regular and full-text searches in one query:
Search::new()
->add(Post::class, 'title')
->addFullText(Video::class, 'title', ['mode' => 'boolean'])
->addFullText(Blog::class, ['title', 'subtitle', 'body'], ['mode' => 'boolean'])
->search('framework -css');
If you want to search through relationships, you need to pass in an array where the array key contains the relation, while the value is an array of columns:
Search::new()
->addFullText(Page::class, [
'posts' => ['title', 'body'],
'sections' => ['title', 'subtitle', 'body'],
])
->search('framework -css');
MySQL has a soundex algorithm built-in so you can search for terms that sound almost the same. You can use this feature by calling the soundsLike
method:
Search::new()
->add(Post::class, 'framework')
->add(Video::class, 'framework')
->soundsLike()
->search('larafel');
Not much to explain here, but this is supported as well :)
Search::add(Post::with('comments'), 'title')
->add(Video::with('likes'), 'title')
->search('guitar');
You call the search
method without a term or with an empty term. In this case, you can discard the second argument of the add
method. With the orderBy
method, you can set the column to sort by (previously the third argument):
Search::add(Post::class)
->orderBy('published_at')
->add(Video::class)
->orderBy('released_at')
->search();
You can count the number of results with the count
method:
Search::add(Post::published(), 'title')
->add(Video::where('views', '>', 2500), 'title')
->count('compile');
You can use the includeModelType
to add the model type to the search result.
Search::add(Post::class, 'title')
->add(Video::class, 'title')
->includeModelType()
->paginate()
->search('foo');
// Example result with model identifier.
{
"current_page": 1,
"data": [
{
"id": 1,
"video_id": null,
"title": "foo",
"published_at": null,
"created_at": "2021-12-03T09:39:10.000000Z",
"updated_at": "2021-12-03T09:39:10.000000Z",
"type": "Post",
},
{
"id": 1,
"title": "foo",
"subtitle": null,
"published_at": null,
"created_at": "2021-12-03T09:39:10.000000Z",
"updated_at": "2021-12-03T09:39:10.000000Z",
"type": "Video",
},
],
...
}
By default, it uses the type
key, but you can customize this by passing the key to the method.
You can also customize the type
value by adding a public method searchType()
to your model to override the default class base name.
class Video extends Model
{
public function searchType()
{
return 'awesome_video';
}
}
// Example result with searchType() method.
{
"current_page": 1,
"data": [
{
"id": 1,
"video_id": null,
"title": "foo",
"published_at": null,
"created_at": "2021-12-03T09:39:10.000000Z",
"updated_at": "2021-12-03T09:39:10.000000Z",
"type": "awesome_video",
}
],
...
You can use the parser with the parseTerms
method:
$terms = Search::parseTerms('drums guitar');
You can also pass in a callback as a second argument to loop through each term:
Search::parseTerms('drums guitar', function($term, $key) {
//
});
composer test
Please see CHANGELOG for more information about what has changed recently.
Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.
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