EloquentFilter

EloquentFilter adds new functionalities to your Laravel Eloquent model to make filtering data easy.

Installing EloquentFilter

You need to use Composer to install EloquentFilter into your project:

composer require wstam/eloquentfilter

Configuring (Laravel)

Now you have to include EloquentFilterServiceProvider in your config/app.php:

'providers' => [
    /*
     * Package Service Providers...
     */
    WStam\EloquentFilter\EloquentFilterServiceProvider::class,
]

Now we need to publish the default blade views by running the following Artisan command in your terminal:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="WStam\EloquentFilter\EloquentFilterServiceProvider"

Now you have container.blade.php and filter.blade.php in your vendor/eloquentfilter view folder. You can change the the template of the filter container and the filter itself to make it fit to your own look and feel.

How to use EloquentFilter

For an example, you want to add filtering to the Product model. Add the filtering trait to your model like this example:

<?php

namespace App\Models;
 
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use WStam\EloquentFilter\EloquentFilterable;
 
class Product extends Model
{
    use EloquentFilterable;
}

Now you can specify filters to your Query Builder object:

/**
 * Show all the products
 *
 * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
 */
public function index()
{
    $products = Product::query()->orderBy('title', 'ASC');
 
    // addFilter($column, $label = null, $type = 'text', $default = null, $comparison = '=')
 
    $products->addFilter('title', 'Title', 'text');
    $products->addFilter('external_supplier', 'External supplier', 'boolean');
    
    // Use filterCollection instead of get() to implement the "renderFilter" method into the collection
    $productCollection = $products->filterCollection();
 
    return view('product.index', ['products' => $productCollection]);
}

Now you can render the filters inside your blade template:

<!-- This renders the filters. You can change the filter views at vendor/eloquentfilter -->
{!! $products->renderFilters() !!}
 
<div class="table-responsive">
    <table class="table table-bordered table-striped">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>Title</th>
                <th>External supplier</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
        @foreach($products as $product)
            <tr>
                <td>
                    <a href="{{ route('product_edit', $product->id) }}">{{$product->title}}</a>
                </td>
                <td>
                    @if($product->external_supplier == 1)
                        Yes
                    @else
                        No
                    @endif
                </td>
            </tr>
        @endforeach
        </tbody>
    </table>
</div>

Contributing

Do have good ideas about expanding/enhancing this library? Feel free to contribute and send a pull request!

License

EloquentFilter is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.