Laravel Bootstrap Typeahead Autocomplete Search from Database

Posted 8 years ago By Ajay Gupta 83685

Laravel Bootstrap Typeahead Autocomplete Search from Database

Autocomplete make more flexible to get relevant data from database and i use different different type of autocomplete to search data from database.

I have already post article regarding manual autocomplete search from database but now i am going to use typeahead js to search data from database.

You can define custom template too in typeahead autocomplete search text box.

Here is a sample example to define template in searchable textbox if you are getting empty records from server api.

  $('#keyword').typeahead(null, {
            name: 'query',
            displayKey: 'value',
            source: autosuggest.ttAdapter(),
            templates: {
                empty: [
                    '<div class="empty-message">',
                    'Unable to find any suggestion for your query',
                    '</div>'
                ].join('\n'),
                suggestion: Handlebars.compile('<div>@{{value}}<br><span>@{{data}}</div>')
            }
        }).on('typeahead:selected', function (obj, datum) {
            window.location.href = datum.href;
        });

  $('#keyword').typeahead(null, {            name: 'query',            displayKey: 'value',            source: autosuggest.ttAdapter(),            templates: {                empty: [                    '<div class="empty-message">',                    'Unable to find any suggestion for your query',                    '</div>'                ].join('\n'),                suggestion: Handlebars.compile('<div>@{{value}}<br><span>@{{data}}</div>')            }        }).on('typeahead:selected', function (obj, datum) {            window.location.href = datum.href;        });

Now i am going to tell you step by step process to create typeahead autocomplete search box in Laravel.

Step 1: Create Products table and module

You should have a table with some demo data to text this code so first create a product table by creating migration file for products table using Laravel 5 php artisan comand.

php artisan make:migration create_products_table

After this command you will get a migration file in following path database/migrations and now add below line of code in your migration file for create products table.

use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreateProductsTable extends Migration
{
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('name');
            $table->text('details');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::drop("products");
    }
}

use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;class CreateProductsTable extends Migration{    public function up()    {        Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {            $table->increments('id');            $table->string('name');            $table->text('details');            $table->timestamps();        });    }    public function down()    {        Schema::drop("products");    }}

When you will run this command then you will find a table Products in your database.

Now you can feed demo data manually or you can use Laravel seed classes to seeding your database with test data.

Now create a Model for Product Table in following path app/Product.php

namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Product extends Model
{
    public $fillable = ['name','details'];
}

namespace App;use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;class Product extends Model{    public $fillable = ['name','details'];}

Step 2: Add Route and Controller functionality

Add two routes for getting view form and second routes to getting database json response.

app/Http/routes.php

Route::get('typeahead-search',array('as'=>'typeahead.search','uses'=>'AutoCompleteController@sampleForm'));
Route::get('typeahead-response',array('as'=>'typeahead.response','uses'=>'AutoCompleteController@typeahead'));

Route::get('typeahead-search',array('as'=>'typeahead.search','uses'=>'AutoCompleteController@sampleForm'));Route::get('typeahead-response',array('as'=>'typeahead.response','uses'=>'AutoCompleteController@typeahead'));

Now create a AutoCompleteController.php in following path app/Http/Controllers/AutoCompleteController.php add two functionality inAutoCompleteController Controller

public function sampleForm(){
    return view('autocomplete');
 }
public function typeahead(Request $request){
        $query = $request->get('term','');        
        $products=Product::where('name','LIKE','%'.$query.'%')->get();        
        return response()->json($products);
}

public function sampleForm(){    return view('autocomplete'); }public function typeahead(Request $request){        $query = $request->get('term','');               $products=Product::where('name','LIKE','%'.$query.'%')->get();               return response()->json($products);}

Step 3: Create View

Create a master layout as Laravel standard.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
 <title>Laravel Bootstrap Typeahead Autocomplete Search from Database</title>
  <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-3-typeahead/4.0.1/bootstrap3-typeahead.min.js"></script>  
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
    @if ($message = Session::get('success'))
        <div class="alert alert-success">
            <p>{{ $message }}</p>
        </div>
    @endif    
    @yield('content')
</div>
</body>
</html>

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>    <meta charset="utf-8">    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <title>Laravel Bootstrap Typeahead Autocomplete Search from Database</title>  <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"><script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.js"></script><script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-3-typeahead/4.0.1/bootstrap3-typeahead.min.js"></script>  </head><body><div class="container">    @if ($message = Session::get('success'))        <div class="alert alert-success">            <p>{{ $message }}</p>        </div>    @endif        @yield('content')</div></body></html>

Now create a blade file in following path resources/views/autocomplete.blade.php

resources/views/autocomplete.blade.php

@extends('layouts.master')
@section('content')
   <div class="row">
        <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-6 col-md-offset-3">
            <div class="panel panel-primary">
              <div class="panel-heading">Example of Bootstrap Typeahead Autocomplete Search Textbox</div>
             <div class="panel-body"> 
            <div class="form-group">                
                {!! Form::text('search_text', null, array('placeholder' => 'Search Text','class' => 'form-control','id'=>'search_text')) !!}
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var url = "{{ route('typeahead.response') }}";
    $('#search_text').typeahead({
        source:  function (query, process) {
        return $.get(url, { query: query }, function (data) {
                return process(data);
            });
        }
    });
</script>
@endsection

@extends('layouts.master')@section('content')   <div class="row">        <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-6 col-md-offset-3">            <div class="panel panel-primary">              <div class="panel-heading">Example of Bootstrap Typeahead Autocomplete Search Textbox</div>             <div class="panel-body">             <div class="form-group">                                {!! Form::text('search_text', null, array('placeholder' => 'Search Text','class' => 'form-control','id'=>'search_text')) !!}            </div>        </div>    </div></div></div><script type="text/javascript">    var url = "{{ route('typeahead.response') }}";    $('#search_text').typeahead({        source:  function (query, process) {        return $.get(url, { query: query }, function (data) {                return process(data);            });        }    });</script>@endsection

You can also click this url to see the Manual Laravel Autocomplete search from Database

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