Laravel ScoreSearch package

Welcome home ! Let me introduce you this package. In fact, this package handles two importants things :

• grammar files (MySQL and PostgreSQL) ;
• a simple trait ;

ScoreSearch allows you to search thought any of entity that implement the provided trait a new way based on scoring to fetch the more relevant rows. At now, I just tested the package over PostgreSQL. Maybe others database engines will be implemented if someone need them.

Installation

The most basic installation is needed.

composer require 'studio-net/laravel-scoresearch @dev'

Usage

Add the provided trait into the wanted Eloquent model and provides a simple searchable protected variable to list the weight of each element. If a column is not specified, the default weight will be 1.

# app/User.php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use StudioNet\ScoreSearch\Searchable;

/**
 * User
 *
 * @see Model
 */
class User extends Model {
	use Searchable;

	/** @var array $searchable */
	protected $searchable = [
		'columns' => [
			'username' => 10,
			'age'      => 5,
			'email'    => 15,
		]
	];
}

Now, you can simply return a search using the search scope, passing as first argument an array of comparaisons to use.

$users = User::search([
		'username' => ['or' => ['cyril', 'studio-net']],
		'email'    => ['or' => ['%@studio-net.fr', '%@studio-net.com'], '%boss'],
		'age'      => '(gt) 20',
	])

	->where('active', true)
	->get();

select * from (
	select users.*, (
		(case when (((username = 'cyril') OR (username = 'studio-net'))) then 10 else 0 end) +
		(case when (((email ilike '%@studio-net.fr') OR (email ilike '%@studio-net.com')) AND (email ilike '%boss')) then 15 else 0 end) +
		(case when (age > 20) then 5 then 0 end)
	) as score from users
) as users where score >= ? and active is true order by score desc

Specification

Operator	PostgreSQL	MySQL
lt	<	<
lte	<=	<=
gt	>	>
gte	>=	>=
%	ilike	like (but process a lower)
=	=	=

In order to use operator, you can refer to example below. Otherwise, this is the default syntax to use : (operator) text, excepting for % and = that doesn't need to handle an operator case, just the string within like cyril will produce = cyril and cyril% will produce ilike 'cyril%'.

Relationship

You can specify in your $searchable variable instance a joins array that can handle table names. You can specify the on by setting a subset.

	protected $searchable = [
		'joins'   => ['posts'],
		'joins'   => ['posts' => ['posts.id', 'users.id']],

		'columns' => [
			'posts.title' => 5,
			'user.login'  => 10
		]
	];

	// Fetch users with related posts
	User::search(['user.login' => 'cyril', 'posts.title' => '%toto%'])->with('posts')->get();

Eloquent

You can use every method that Eloquent provides. As this package use a subquery, you can easily make queries like :

User::where('role', 'admin')
	->search(['email' => '%@studio-net.fr'])
	->with('posts')
	->paginate(20);

Contributing

Thank you for considering contributing to this Laravel package. You are able to create issue and pull request in order to improve this powerful package.

License

This Laravel package is open-sourced software licensed and under the MIT license.