Laravel 8 Autocomplete Search from Database Example

Here, i will show you laravel 8 autocomplete search from database. you can understand a concept of ajax autocomplete textbox in laravel 8. This article goes in detailed on laravel 8 typeahead autocomplete ajax.

i explained simply about laravel 8 typeahead ajax autocomplete example. You just need to some step to done laravel 8 jquery ajax autocomplete example.

Bootstrap Typeahead JS provide way of user interface so, we can easily write code of jquery ajax and make it dynamic autocomplete search in laravel 8 application. we can easily use Typeahead JS with bootstrap.

Jquery autocomplete is must if you are dealing with big data, like you have items or products table and thousands of records so it's not possible to give drop-down box, but it is better if we use autocomplete instead of select box.

Follow bellow step to create simple autocomplete search with laravel 8 application.

Step 1 : Download Laravel 8

first of all we need to get fresh Laravel 8 version application using bellow command, So open your terminal OR command prompt and run bellow command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Step 2: Create Migration and Model

In this step we have to create migration for items table using Laravel 8 php artisan command, so first fire bellow command:

php artisan make:migration create_items_table

After this command you will find one file in following path "database/migrations" and you have to put bellow code in your migration file for create items table.

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
  
class CreateItemsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('items', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('name');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }
  
    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('items');
    }
}

Then after, simply run migration:

php artisan migrate

After create "items" table you should create Item model for items, so first create file in this path "app/Models/Item.php" and put bellow content in item.php file:

app/Models/Item.php

<?php
  
namespace App\Models;
  
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
  
class Item extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;
  
    protected $fillable = [
        'name'
    ];
}

Step 3: Create Route

In this is step we need to create routes for display view and ajax method. so open your "routes/web.php" file and add following route.

routes/web.php

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
  
use App\Http\Controllers\SearchController;
  
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 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!
|
*/
  
Route::get('search', [SearchController::class, 'index'])->name('search');
Route::get('autocomplete', [SearchController::class, 'autocomplete'])->name('autocomplete');

Step 4: Create Controller

In this step, we have to create new controller as SearchController and we have also need to add two methods index() and autocomplete() on that controller like as you can see bellow:

app/Http/Controllers/SearchController.php

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Item;
  
class SearchController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        return view('search');
    }
  
    /**
     * Show the form for creating a new resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function autocomplete(Request $request)
    {
        $data = Item::select("name")
                ->where("name","LIKE","%{$request->query}%")
                ->get();
   
        return response()->json($data);
    }
}

Step 5: Create View File

In Last step, let's create search.blade.php(resources/views/search.blade.php) for layout and lists all items code here and put following code:

resources/views/search.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Laravel 8 Autocomplete Search using Bootstrap Typeahead JS - ItSolutionStuff.com</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
    <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">
    <h1>Laravel 8 Autocomplete Search using Bootstrap Typeahead JS - ItSolutionStuff.com</h1>   
    <input class="typeahead form-control" type="text">
</div>
   
<script type="text/javascript">
    var path = "{{ route('autocomplete') }}";
    $('input.typeahead').typeahead({
        source:  function (query, process) {
        return $.get(path, { query: query }, function (data) {
                return process(data);
            });
        }
    });
</script>
   
</body>
</html>

Make sure you have some dummy data on your items table before run this example. Now we are ready to run our example so run bellow command for quick run:

php artisan serve

Now you can open bellow URL on your browser:

http://localhost:8000/search

I hope it can help you...