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Reputation: 21

Laravel condition in URI

I am planning to implement an api for a database using Laravel and I am hoping to have a search function using a URI like

www.exaample.com/WaferSearch?{search string}

It seems very easy to implement a search string like

param1 = 4

This would request a list of wafers ( this is what the database is about) where param1 is equal to 4

The documentation seems to be very clear about how I can turn any sort of a question like this into SQL.

However, I want to have a search string like

param1 > 4

I would also be happy to express the search string like this

param1_GreaterThan =4

and I can see how I could write some code to parse the search string to work out what was required. However I feel that I would be solving a problem that must have been solved many times before.

Is there a well established way to do this?

Graham

Upvotes: 2

Views: 105

Answers (1)

David Barker
David Barker

Reputation: 14620

There's lots of ways to implement something like this but one way springs to mind as the most extensible. Use two variables in the query.

  • Greater than http://myapi.com/wafersearch?p1=4&op=gt

  • Less than http://myapi.com/wafersearch?p1=4&op=lt

  • Equal to http://myapi.com/wafersearch?p1=4&op=eq

Alternatively you could use rewrites to pass in the variables directly to the route / controller method.

  • Greater than http://myapi.com/wafersearch/gt/4

  • Less than http://myapi.com/wafersearch/lt/4

  • Equal to http://myapi.com/wafersearch/eq/4

Upvotes: 2

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