export the view i'm seeing (from DB)

Just pass the results into laravel-excel package (probably best) and map out the data and columns you need. I've already done this before and it works fine.

@joelkoskela the data i'm getting back from the search module

@bashy that's the thing, the data i need is decided when i enter a search inside my view. For example i type the beginning of server names, got around 100 results for example, and i want those inside my export... how do i pass the search result data to the export i'm trying to do ?

thanks for your help (and don't forget i'm a newbie ;) )

Have you got a button to export the list? You will probably need to do the same request but with an option checked to actually run the export.

that's the thing, i'm not doing anything for the search, i'm calling a module like this in my controller :

$alls = Ansible::searchable()->sortable()->paginate(2000);

and in the view i'm calling this blade extension like specified in the module doc (https://github.com/kevinpijning/laravel-searchable) :

@searchableform

so i don't know what's going on behind the scene...

is it possible the way i'm doing it or using this module is making my life harder ? i might also not know about something very simple because i wrote this laravel site with no experience, following examples... so don't assume i know all the basics ^^

Oh right, I just thought you were using it to pass search params via GET or something :P I don't know about that then.

actually the search url after i type something is in the form http://website/ansible?search=asic

so maybe i could use this in an export function to pass it directly to my module inside the controller ?

so how do get params from GET url in a controller ? :)

thanks

Yeah maybe. I'm not to familiar with how it works but you can get the GET/POST data via request('search')

thanks i managed to do it using Requests (i knew the name but didn't understood the concept, now i do ;)) and passing it to a controller function.