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I have been able to get scout to work well, and from what I understand this is strictly a text-based search. I would like to use the scout search on a product model and return the image of the model as well as some more data about it. Currently, I have only been able to return the ID of the item in the scout search. Is there a tutorial I should be looking at for this?
By default Scout indexes the data returned from model's toArray method, so you might be overriding it and only returning an id.
You can also use toSearchableArray method to explicitly specify which data should be indexed.
Here is the docs: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/scout#configuring-searchable-data
@Sti3bas thank you! I will give it a read.
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