I am confused about laravel site development

Well, that was quite descriptive. :)

Anything in particular?

@raygun

That code looks good.

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@raygun while this site goes quite a bit in depth on the back-end aspect of PHP/Laravel (and is making a way to the front-end with a few video collections like vue.js etc), most people come to this site with at least a basic understanding of front-end html.

I just recently open sourced the entire code to make my site LaraBin.com - It is written in Laravel 5.1, you are more than welcome to look through it and see how I was able to build it.

With that being said, there is no "1" way to do things. There are multiple. Your question is quite vague. If you were to create a thread with specific issues, and questions in mind then it would go a lot further in producing fruitful answers.

I think you're not quite understanding controllers and models. You do not need to have a controller for every link in your navigation and a model is specific to a set of data - for example, users, posts, images, etc.

So, for example, your News page might use the NewsController which in turn displays Post models - data from your posts table.

Something like:

class NewsController extends Controller {
     public function index()
     {
           $posts = App\Post::orderBy('created_at')->paginate(10);
          
          return view('news.index')->with('posts', $posts);
     }
}

As others have said, perhaps elaborate about what exactly you're struggling with? What have you tried?

@opheliadesign and @Kryptonit3 I want to return data from to different models when the page loads and when I do a search. But when I try this

public function index(Request $request)
    {

        $query = $request->get('q');
        $posts = $query
            ? Post::search('%'.$query.'%', ['title', 'subtitle', 'content_raw', 'tags.title'])->paginate(15)
            : Post::orderBy('published_at', 'desc')->paginate(15);



        $query = $request->get('q');
        $videos = $query
            ? Video::search('%'.$query.'%', ['title', 'subtitle', 'content_raw', 'tags.title'])->paginate(15)
            : Video::orderBy('published_at', 'desc')->paginate(15);


        $tag = $request->get('tag');
        $data = $this->dispatch(new BlogIndexData($tag));
        $layout = $tag ? Tag::layout($tag) : 'blog.layouts.index';



        return view($layout, $data)->withPosts($posts)->withVideos($videos);
    }

I get this error

Call to undefined method Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder::search()

but if I do this

    public function index(Request $request)
    {

        $query = $request->get('q');
        $posts = $query
            ? Post::search('%'.$query.'%', ['title', 'subtitle', 'content_raw', 'tags.title'])->paginate(15)
            : Post::orderBy('published_at', 'desc')->paginate(15);


        $tag = $request->get('tag');
        $data = $this->dispatch(new BlogIndexData($tag));
        $layout = $tag ? Tag::layout($tag) : 'blog.layouts.index';



        return view($layout, $data)->withPosts($posts);
    }

it works and I'm using "search". so I don't get it

@raygun search isn't an eloquent method. You will need to use the where method.

I assume you are using https://github.com/nicolaslopezj/searchable

but @Kryptonit3

but if I do this

    public function index(Request $request)
    {

        $query = $request->get('q');
        $posts = $query
            ? Post::search('%'.$query.'%', ['title', 'subtitle', 'content_raw', 'tags.title'])->paginate(15)
            : Post::orderBy('published_at', 'desc')->paginate(15);


        $tag = $request->get('tag');
        $data = $this->dispatch(new BlogIndexData($tag));
        $layout = $tag ? Tag::layout($tag) : 'blog.layouts.index';



        return view($layout, $data)->withPosts($posts);
    }

it works and I'm using "search". so I don't get it

what is the line number the error is referring to? The only common denominator is that Post works. Chances are your Video model doesn't have the use SearchableTrait; on it.

@Kryptonit3 this is the error and line number

BadMethodCallException in Builder.php line 1994:
Call to undefined method Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder::search()

and this is what I'm using in my Post.php model

use App\Services\Markdowner;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Carbon\Carbon;
use Sofa\Eloquence\Eloquence;

I figured it out I had to put "use Eloquence;" in my Video model