Best laravel package for advanced searching

I just used datatables where there is a search and it can do advanced searching

I don't think that datatables is going to help me, it's actually not what I want to do.

Anyone to help me with that?

The best is Algolia but it is free for non commercial projects only. This post is a good one, and there is a demo on how advanced you can go, it is a bit of an old one, but still good.

And the documentation for Laravel Scout which again uses Algolia as a driver.

@nakov I like the idea of Algolia but the project is commercial and I don't want to have additional expenses. Is there an open source package or something like that?

@zefex you can always search for available drivers for Laravel Scout. This is one that I found and looks interesting.

I heard and read about Laravel Scout before but I found it really complicated to understand and not that simple to set up also, specially the way I want like using filters as you see in ecommerce, classified websites, and so on, for example:

Something simple that could handle what you are talking about is https://github.com/spatie/laravel-query-builder

If your not doing full text search you might not need something like Algolia.

@mattsplat I liked how it works the thing tho that is confusing me is how the form would be structuring considering that the filters needs to have filter in the query like /users?filter[name]=John and /users?include=posts