Level 1
Learn this https://laravel-livewire.com/ it takes you one afternoon and makes many complicated things easy, including this.
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Jul 29, 2023
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Level 8
Real time search + pagination
Hello,
I currently use Laravel's pagination and whenever I need a search feature I simply add a search box that, when submitted, saves the value in a session key in the backend and then it refreshes the page with the filtered query.
Now I want to change it to be real time search so that the page won't refresh.
In this case, should I completely stop using the Laravel pagination and do everything with JS? For example for the links and the number of links use a query that counts the results, and a query that fetches the data according to the page.
Or any other idea?
Thanks
Level 8
But I can't use Livewire right now :/ if I could I would give it a try
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Level 1
you could still use laravel and return the data for that page as json, so basically make an API for that page and use the generated pagination
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Level 8
@Adamzz So if for example I already have some page that uses pagination:
public function my_page(Request $request)
{
// some more stuff to gather
return view('user.index', [
'users' => DB::table('users')->paginate(15)
'some_other_data' => $some_other_data
]);
}
I need to change to JSON (Or instead of change, add another endpoint because I still need the original view):
public function my_page_api(Request $request)
{
// some more stuff to gather
return response()->json([
'users' => DB::table('users')->where('some_column', '=', $request->input('search'))->paginate(15)
'some_other_data' => $some_other_data
]);
}
Level 75
Just use a server fetched partial.
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Level 8
@jlrdw Oh first time hearing of this. And looks like exactly what I need. Thanks. Even saw a video: https://laracasts.com/series/javascript-techniques-for-server-side-developers/episodes/1
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Level 63
@ligonsker You can also use Livewire or simply AlpineJS.
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