Laravel fulltext index and search

This package creates a MySQL fulltext index for models and enables you to search through those.

Installation

1. Install with composer composer require swisnl/laravel-fulltext.
2. Install service provider Swis\LaravelFulltext\FulltextServiceProvider::class, in config/app.php
3. Publish migrations and config php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-fulltext
4. Migrate the database php artisan migrate

Usage

The package uses a model observer to update the index when models change. If you want to run a full index you can use the console commands.

Models

Add the Indexable trait to the model you want to have indexed and define the columns you'd like to index as title and content.

Example

class Country extends Model
{

    use \Swis\LaravelFulltext\Indexable;

    protected $indexContentColumns = ['biographies.name', 'political_situation', 'elections'];
    protected $indexTitleColumns = ['name', 'governmental_type'];

}

You can use a dot notitation to query relationships for the model, like biographies.name.

Searching

You can search using the Search class.

$search = new \Swis\LaravelFulltext\Search();
$search->run('europe');

This will return a Collection of \Swis\LaravelFulltext\IndexedRecord which contain the models in the Polymorphic relation indexable.

If you only want to search a certain model you can use $search->runForClass('europe', Country::class);. This will only return results from that model.

Commands

laravel-fulltext:all

Index all models for a certain class

 php artisan  laravel-fulltext:all
 
Usage:
  laravel-fulltext:all <model_class>

Arguments:
  model_class           Classname of the model to index

Example

php artisan laravel-fulltext:all \\App\\Models\\Country

laravel-fulltext:one

Usage:
  laravel-fulltext:one <model_class> <id>

Arguments:
  model_class           Classname of the model to index
  id                    ID of the model to index

Example

php artisan laravel-fulltext:one \\App\\Models\\Country 4

Options

weight.title weight.content

Results on title or content are weighted in the results. Search result score is multiplied by the weight in this config

enable_wildcards

Enable wildcard after words. So when searching for for example car it will also match carbon.