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Mike Ross
Mike Ross

Reputation: 2972

Laravel dynamic routing for search

I would like to generate dynamic route when user clicks on Search button.

I know it can be done with following GET method

https://laravel.dev/search?q=parameter 
https://laravel.dev/search?state=XYZ&category=Automobile

But instead I would like to do following

https://laravel.dev/search/state/XYZ/category/Automobile

So if I add an extra parameter in search form it will just add onto the URL.

The parameters may be optional so can not add a fix route in routes. User may supply state or search through all states.

https://laravel.dev/search/category/Automobile

Following is my search form code

<div class="jumbotron">
    <!--Search Bar-->
    {{ html()->form('GET',route('frontend.search'))->class('form-inline justify-content-center')->open() }}
    {{ html()->select('category',$categories)->class('form-control mr-sm-2') }}

    {{ html()->select('state',$states)->class('form-control mr-sm-2') }}

    <!--More filter to add later-->
    <button class="btn btn-outline-primary my-2 my-sm-0" type="submit">Search</button>

    {{ html()->form()->close() }}
</div>

How can I achieve that?

Thank you

Upvotes: 2

Views: 475

Answers (2)

Christophe Hubert
Christophe Hubert

Reputation: 2951

You can handle the logic with a catch-all route with regular expressions https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/routing#parameters-regular-expression-constraints

//routes.php
Route::get('search/{search?}', 'SearchController@search')
    ->where('search', '(.*)');


//controller 
class SearchController extends BaseController {

    public function search($search = null)
    {
        if ($search != null){   
            dd($search);          
        }
    }
}

Example

Upvotes: 1

Kusmayadi
Kusmayadi

Reputation: 358

Try to use Regex:

Route::get('search/{searchParams}', 'SearchController@search')
    ->where('searchParams', '[a-zA-Z0-9\/]+');

You can put anything on searchParams but you need to parse it.

Upvotes: 0

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