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autocomplete search in laravel

Bootstrap autocomplete search in Laravel

In this tutorial, I will give you an example of “Bootstrap autocomplete search in Laravel”, So you can easily apply it with your laravel 5, laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, and laravel 9 application.

First, what we’re doing here, This is the example :

create blade file

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Autocomplete search using Select2 in Laravel

Select2 was designed to be a replacement for the standard <select> box that is displayed by the browser. By default it supports all options and operations that are available in a standard select box, but with added flexibility.

Generating Migration with Model :

php artisan make:model Brand -m

Migration Structures :

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreateBrandsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('brands', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('brand_name');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('brands');
    }
}

Run Migration :

php artisan migrate
brands table

app\Models\Brand.php :

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Brand extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;
}

Create a Seeder File to Insert Dummy Data

php artisan make:seeder BrandSeeder

database\seeders\BrandSeeder.php

<?php

namespace Database\Seeders;

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;

class BrandSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        $brands = [

            ['id' => 1, 'brand_name' => 'Apple'],
            ['id' => 2, 'brand_name' => 'Samsung'],
            ['id' => 3, 'brand_name' => 'Google'],
            ['id' => 4, 'brand_name' => 'Huawei'],
            ['id' => 5, 'brand_name' => 'OnePlus'],
            ['id' => 6, 'brand_name' => 'Xiaomi'],
            ['id' => 7, 'brand_name' => 'LG'],
            ['id' => 8, 'brand_name' => 'Oppo'],
            ['id' => 9, 'brand_name' => 'Vivo'],
            ['id' => 10,'brand_name' => 'Nokia'],
    
            ];
    
            foreach ($brands as $item) {
                \App\Models\Brand::create($item);
            }
    }
}

Register Seeder File

database\Seeders\DatabaseSeeder.php

<?php

namespace Database\Seeders;

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Seed the application's database.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
      $this->call(BrandSeeder::class);
    }
}

Seed the Seeder

php artisan db:seed
create seeder file in laravel
insert dummy data using seeder

Create a Controller :

php artisan make:controller BrandController

routes\web.php :

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\BrandController;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/

#Bootstrap autosearch example
Route::get('/create-product', [BrandController::class,'create']);

app\Http\Controllers\BrandController.php :

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use\App\Models\Brand;

class BrandController extends Controller
{
    public function create(){
        $brands = Brand::orderBy('brand_name')->get();
        return view('autocomplete.create',compact('brands'));
    }
}

resources\views\autocomplete\create.blade.php

create blade file
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.2/css/bootstrap.min.css">
      <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/select2@4.1.0-rc.0/dist/css/select2.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

      <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
      <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
      <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/select2@4.1.0-rc.0/dist/js/select2.min.js"></script>
   </head>
   <main>
      <br><br>
      <div class="container">
         <div class="row justify-content-center">
            <div class="col-lg-6">
               <div class="main">
                  <h5 style="color: #BE206B;">Bootstrap autocomplete search Example in Laravel</h5>
                  <br>
                  <form>
                     <div class="form-group">
                        <label for="name">Name<span class="text-danger">*</span></label>
                        <input type="text" name="name" class="form-control" required>
                     </div>
                     <div class="form-group">
                        <label for="price">Price<span class="text-danger">*</span></label>
                        <input type="text" name="price" class="form-control" required>
                     </div>
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <label for="brand">Brand<span class="text-danger">*</span></label>
                        <select class="brand-search-autocomplete form-control" name="brand">
                           <option>Select Brand</option>
                           @foreach($brands as $brand)
                           <option value="{{$brand->id}}">{{ $brand->brand_name }}</option>
                           @endforeach
                         </select>
                     </div>
                     <div class="form-group">
                        <button type="submit" class="btn btn btn-primary">Save</button>
                     </div>
                  </form>
               </div>
            </div>
         </div>
      </div>
   </main>
   </body>
</html>

<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.brand-search-autocomplete').select2();
});
</script>

Don’t Forget to Import Bootstrap select 2 Css and Js Files CDN

CSS File CDN:

<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/select2@4.1.0-rc.0/dist/css/select2.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

JS File CDN:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/select2@4.1.0-rc.0/dist/js/select2.min.js"></script>

Related article:- Laravel Ajax autocomplete search.

Run The Application :

http://127.0.0.1:8000/create-product

Now, you can see the output given below images, we have successfully implemented the Bootstrap autocomplete search in the Laravel application.

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