Simple search in laravel

Check out Laravel scout: https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/scout

I implemented it myself in a project the other day and it was very easy. If you're using Vue there's even an instant search component ready to use.

You need a form that makes a get request.

Basically, something like this:

<form action="/index", method="GET">
    <input name="title" placeholder="title">
    <input name="category" placeholder="category">

    etc...
</form>

<!-- action="/index" part telling this form should make a get request to yourdomain/index-->

Then, in your controller which responds to the "yourdomain/index", you can get the params passed in using php's super global "$_GET" then, query your database with the passed in values.

For example,

    $title = $_GET['title'];
    $category = $_GET['category'];

    $items = \App\Item::where([ 
        ['title', 'LIKE', '%' . $title . '%'],
        ['category', 'LIKE', '%' . $category . '%'],
    ])->get();

    return view('view_name', compact('items'));