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GTHell's avatar

Query and filter tips?

Hi, everyone, currently I'm using if condition on request to check for specific query param and filter it in eloquent query builder. I think you can imagine my problem! Is there a simple way to handle all of this?

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Mostafa_Kh's avatar

you can first get request keys and foreach on it and do you filter

SilenceBringer's avatar

You can use "only" to select only the data you want from request

For example:

request()->only('brand', 'category', 'size')

will return array with the parameter from the requested set. For example, if only brand presented in request - you'll have array with 1 element only, if brand and size - result will have array with 2 elements

For more details you can check documentation

https://laravel.com/docs/master/requests#retrieving-input

subsection Retrieving A Portion Of The Input Data

martinbean's avatar

@gthell Well, no. If you watch the video I gave you the link to, you could create a class that add clauses to your query builder instance based on items in the query string.

It means you then have a class solely responsible for filtering and sorting, and your models don’t get full of scopes that are inspecting HTTP requests (which they shouldn’t do).

GTHell's avatar

@martinbean I think I get the idea. Thank man! I've done it now and got my filtering working fine.

Back then I use to build a much complicated query builder to handle DevExpress datagrid but now I only want thing to be simpler haha

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