Persist form checkboxes (select and others) on pagination

You can use the appends method. No need to store data in session.

{{ $users->appends(['sort' => 'votes'])->links() }}

What I want is to keep the "name" on the form (on the input) with the name that the used searched for. And to keep results for that name, but in page 2.

It is not what appends does, no?

It can still work for that. Appends is meant for when your variables are set as url parameters.

mysite.com?name=John&page=3

Here is an example usage:

// users/index.blade.php
<form method="GET">
    <input type="text" name="name" value="{{ Input::get('name') }}">
    <button type="submit">Filter</button>
</form>

<ul>
    @foreach($users as $user)
        <li>{{ $user->name }}</li>
    @endforeach
</ul>

{{ $users->appends([
    'name' => Input::get('name')
])->links() }}

And then the controller could be something like this:

// UsersController.php
public function index(Request $request)
{
    $name = request('name');

    $users = User::when($name, function ($query) use ($name) {
        return $query->where('name', $name);
    })->paginate(12);

    return view('users.index', compact('users'));
}

Thank you for the info. It works good. Just a last question, any idea about how to mark "checked" for a checkbox, or "selected" for a dropdown?

Ok, just using

if (Input::get('checkbox_name') == 'true') { 
    echo 'checked';
}

@elfeffe Yea that is one option. You could maybe inline it to clean things up.

<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckbox" value="1" {{ Input::get('mycheckbox') == 1 ? 'checked' : '' }}>
<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckbox" value="2" {{ Input::get('mycheckbox') == 2 ? 'checked' : '' }}>

Or wrap that logic in a helper function.

<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckbox" value="1" {{ isChecked('mycheckbox', 1) }}>
<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckbox" value="2" {{ isChecked('mycheckbox', 2) }}>

//helpers.php
function isChecked($name, $value) {
    return Input::get($name) == $value ? 'checked' : '';
}

I personally prefer using the Laravel Collective form helpers.

{{ Form::checkbox('name', 'value') }} // not selected
{{ Form::checkbox('name', 'value', true) }} // selected

{{ Form::checkbox('mycheckbox', 1, Input::get('mycheckbox') == 1) }}
{{ Form::checkbox('mycheckbox', 2, Input::get('mycheckbox') == 2) }}

And dropdowns work the same way.

{{ Form::select('myselect', [
    '1' => 'Value 1',
    '2' => 'Value 2'
], Input::get('myselect'), ['placeholder' => 'Pick one...']) }}

Thank you, you are the best