How to Create a Simple search in your website use Laravel?

• First, for example, if you own an online store and there is a table of Categoriesand you want to do a search for any Category.

• In the CategoriesController file in the Categories:
• add the function search in CategoriesController
• In the example, we are searching in the name column from the categories table.

public function search_category(Request $request){
    // Get the search value
    $search = $request->input('search');

    // Search in the name column from the categories table
    $categories = Category::query()
        ->where('name', 'LIKE', "%{$search}%")
        ->get();

    // Return the resluts 
    return view('search', compact('categories'));
}

• Now: Don’t forget to add the route for the Search function

Route::get('/search/', 'CategoriesController@search_category')->name('search');

• To complete this, you must create a view and create a form search

<form action="{{ route('search') }}" method="GET">
    <input type="text" name="search" required/>
    <button type="submit">Search</button>
</form>

• Now to display the results

@if($categories->isNotEmpty())
    @foreach ($categoriesas $category)
        <ol>
            <li>{{ $categories->name}}</li>
        </ol>
    @endforeach
@else 
    <div>
        <h2>No categories :( </h2>
    </div>
@endif

• Above, we have displayed the search result, and in the event that there is no similar category to the one we searched for, the phrase “No categories :(” will be displayed

There are advanced ways to search and this is just one of many ways