Laravel search results paginate without direct collection

Question

I have a search like:

$users = User::search($q)
               ->orderBy($sortBy, $orderBy)
               ->paginate($perPage);

and I can paginate results in blade with

{{ $users->render() }}

no problem. However my SearchController continues like

if($request->loc){
    $users = $users->where('loc',$request->loc);
}
if($request->sz) {
    $users = $users->where('sz',$request->sz);
}
...
return view('search', compact('users'));

which means I cant use the {{ $users->render() }} in blade because $users doesnt have the orderBy, paginate of the collection.

How can I solve this? Thanks for answer!

Answer 1

You should not combine pagination and filtering the Collections, it can make the results flakey. If you want filtering with pagination you have to do it on the QueryBuilder .

For your logic you can utilize when($condition, $clojure) on the QueryBuilder that will only execute if the condition is true.

$users = User::search($q)
           ->orderBy($sortBy, $orderBy)
           ->when($request->loc, function ($query) use ($request) {
               $query->where('loc', $request->loc);
           })
           ->when($request->sz, function ($query) use ($request) {
               $query->where('sz', $request->sz);
           })
           ->paginate($perPage);

return view('search', compact('users'));