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[Search & Filtering](/categories/search) 4. / 5. illusi03/lara-search ActiveLibrary[Search & Filtering](/categories/search) illusi03/lara-search ==================== Advanced model and relationships search for Laravel v1.6.2(4y ago)0143MITPHP Since Oct 4Pushed 4y ago1 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/illusi03/lara-search)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/illusi03/lara-search)[ RSS](/packages/illusi03-lara-search/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (7)Dependencies (1)Versions (8)Used By (0) LaraSearch for Laravel ---------------------- [](#larasearch-for-laravel) LaraSearch is a search package for laravel that use recursivity to efficiently find a record of a model, by occurrences of any word found in the search and in any relationship given for the model. Let's say you have a model Post, the model Post hasMany comments, and the model Comment belongsTo a User. Beside, your app user searched for the string "Galactic Empire,and... pizza for steve". Yup, that makes sense. If you want to find a post given that string in any part of the relationship chain of the Post model it could, for example: - bring a post which title is "The love for pizza". - bring a post that has a comment that says "Wow that was out of this empire" - bring a post that has a comment posted by a guy named "Steve". Hi Steve. ### Installation [](#installation) Require the package in your composer.json and update composer to download the package ``` composer require illusi03/lara-search ``` After that, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php ``` Illusi03\LaraSearch\ServiceProvider::class, ``` if you want to, add the facade for convenience ``` 'LaraSearch' => Illusi03\LaraSearchFacade::class, ``` How to Use ---------- [](#how-to-use) ### Using the trait [](#using-the-trait) Use the trait in your model ``` use Illusi03\LaraSearch\Traits\LaraSearchable; class Model extends Eloquent { use LaraSearchable; ... } ``` The LaraSearch() method will bring back your search results. It takes 3 arguments: - **$search** the search string to find - **$fields** an array with the fields of the model you want to search in - **$relationFields** an associative array with the relations of the main model and their fields you want to search in ``` $posts = Post::laraSearch($userInput, ['title'], [ 'comments' => 'comment', 'comments.user' => ['name', 'lastname'] ])->get(); ``` ### Using the static class [](#using-the-static-class) Alternatively you can use the static class LaraSearch::find(). It takes 3 arguments: - **$search** the search string to find - **$model** the model from which you want to return the records. ex: 'App\\Post' - **$searchSchema** an array with the relations of the main model you want to search in, as well as what fields. The format is as follows: ``` $searchSchema = [ 'fields' => ['title'], // Fields where you want to search in the main model 'relationships' => [ // Relationships, if any [ 'relationship' => 'comments', // Here you put name of the relationship 'fields' => 'comment', // And here the fields where you want to search in the related table ], [ 'relationship' => 'comments.user', // Use dot notation for inner relations 'fields' => ['name', 'lastname'], ] ] ]; ``` ### Chaining [](#chaining) The LaraSearch() and find() methods return a query, so you need to bring the results by yourself using get() or paginate(n) and even chaining other methods. Following the example above we get: ``` $search = LaraSearch::find($userInput, App\Models\Post::query(), $searchSchema)->where('active', 1)->paginate(10); ``` Authors ------- [](#authors) - **lHumanizado** - **Rubenazo** - **Illusi03** ### Health Score 26 — LowBetter than 43% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity10 Limited adoption so far Community7 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity55 Maturing project, gaining track record Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. 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