Search Food Items in laravel - php

Question

I have a search box in my views and I want to search foods from the database.
My view for seach box is:
<div class="field" id="searchform">
<input type="text" id="searchterm" placeholder="e.g mutton
karahi,pizza..." />
<button type="button" id="search"
onclick="window.location='http://localhost:8000/search'">Find Food!</button>
</div>
My food table has fields like:
Food_id
FoodName
FoodDescription
FoodImage
Price
Now I want to search my foods By name.How I can do that?plz help me.I am new to laravel and I am using laravel 5.2.

Answer 1

Search In Laravel
Create Your Model
As you mentioned you have a table say food we will generate a model Food.php in your app folder
<?php namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;
class Food extends Model {
use SoftDeletes;
protected $table = 'food';
protected $fillable = ['id','name','description','image'];
protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];
}
Crete a search Controller
php artisan make:controller SearchController
Inside Controller Write logic to retrive your model records based on food name
public function search(Request $request){
$foods = Food::where('name','%LIKE%',$request->input('q'))->get();
return view('search')->with(['foods'=>$foods]);
}
We are now returning our modals to view. You can use dd($foods) either in your controller or in view to check the results
In your Search Form View, make action to SearchController
{{Form::open(array('action' => 'SearchController#search','method'=>'post','name'=>'mini_search','id'=>'mini_search','role'=>'form')) }}
<div class="field" >
<input type="text" id="searchterm" placeholder="e.g mutton
karahi,pizza..." name="q" />
<button type="submit" id="search" >Find Food!</button>
</div>
{{Form::close()}}
Finally, we also need a view to display our results
SO create a file search.blade.php and display the results.
https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/views#passing-data-to-views
<ul>
#foreach($foods as $food)
<li>{{$food->name}}</li>
#endforeach
</ul></pre>

Answer 2

Presumably, your table name is foods, you can do this with Eloquent or DB facade in your controller.
public function search(){
$foodName = Input::get('food_name'');
$foods = Food::where('FoodName', $foodName)->get();
return $foods;
}
This is most simple version. I hope it can help.