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Posted by maneesa johnson
maneesa johnson
2,618 Points

Newbie: Trying to create a search function on laravel 5

I'm trying to make a search function with laravel 5 and it's not passing the results variable to the view, has I written it incorrectly? It says $results variable undefined without the isset function and it always says products not set. When I var dump the information it says: string '$results' (length=8).

Search controller:

 public function index()

{
$searchterm = Input::get('searchinput');

if ($searchterm){

    $products = DB::table('products');            
    $results = $products->where('name', 'LIKE', '%'. $searchterm .'%')
    ->orWhere('description', 'LIKE', '%'. $searchterm .'%')
    ->orWhere('brand', 'LIKE', '%'. $searchterm .'%')
    ->get();

    return view('search')->with('products', $results);                 

     }
 }

The view: <?php if(isset($results)){ ?> @foreach($results as $result) {{{ $result->name }}} @endforeach <?php } else { echo "products not set"; } ?>

2 Answers

Petros Sordinas
Petros Sordinas
16,181 Points
Petros Sordinas
Petros Sordinas
16,181 Points

Hi Maneesa,

Here is your problem: return view('search')->with('products', $results);

You are loading the search view passing the $results as products. Your view does a foreach loop on $results, not $products. Either change $results to $products in your view or load your view like this:

return view('search')->with('results', $results);

maneesa johnson
maneesa johnson
2,618 Points
maneesa johnson
maneesa johnson
2,618 Points

Hey thanks for getting back to me. I made the changes but now I get an error saying call to non object. I'm trying to find out why. Do you have any ideas?