Laravel 9 Autocomplete Search using Typeahead JS Tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn about the Laravel 9 Autocomplete Search using Typeahead JS Tutorial and its application with practical example.

In this Laravel 9 Autocomplete Search using Typeahead JS Tutorial, I will show you how to create a dynamic database driven ajax jquery autocomplete using typeahead js in Laravel 9. In this tutorial we will create a dynamic search dropdown autocomplete which will fetch options from database table using bootstrap typeahead js.

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Laravel jQuery Typeahead JS
Laravel 9 Autocomplete Search using Typeahead JS Tutorial

Laravel jQuery Typeahead JS

The Typeahead JS is a jquery plugin, it is used to create dynamic autocomplete input with several options. In this example you will learn how to implement typeahead autocomplete in laravel 9.

In this step by step tutorial I will demonstrate how to create a dynamic database driven ajax jquery autocomplete using typeahead js in Laravel 9. Please follow the instruction given below:

Install Laravel 9
Connecting App to Database
Generate Fake Records

Add Routes
Create Controller & Methods
Create Blade View

Start Development Server
Test This App

Install Laravel 9

First of all we need to create a fresh laravel project, download and install Laravel using the below command

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

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

Connecting App to Database

Now, lets create a MySQL database and connect it with laravel application. After creating database we need to set database credential in application’s .env file.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql 
 DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 
 DB_PORT=3306 
 DB_DATABASE=here your database name here
 DB_USERNAME=here database username here
 DB_PASSWORD=here database password here

DB_CONNECTION=mysql

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

DB_PORT=3306

DB_DATABASE=here your database name here

DB_USERNAME=here database username here

DB_PASSWORD=here database password here

Generate Fake Records

In this step we will insert dummy data into database

php artisan migrate

1	php artisan migrate

Now we will add fake records in our database. use the below command and add 100 fake records in database :

php artisan tinker 

factory(App\User::class, 100)->create();

php artisan tinker

factory(App\User::class, 100)->create();

Add Routes

After this, we need to define routes in “routes/web.php” file. Lets open “routes/web.php” file and add the following routes in it.

routes/web.php

use App\Http\Controllers\AutoCompleteController;

Route::get('search', [AutoCompleteController::class, 'index']);
Route::get('autocomplete', [AutoCompleteController::class, 'search']);

use App\Http\Controllers\AutoCompleteController;

Route::get('search', [AutoCompleteController::class, 'index']);

Route::get('autocomplete', [AutoCompleteController::class, 'search']);

Create Controller & Methods

Now, lets create a controller named AutoCompleteController using command given below –

php artisan make:controller AutoCompleteController

1	php artisan make:controller AutoCompleteController

After successfully create controller go to app/controllers/AutoCompleteController.php and put the below code :

<?php
 
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
 
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\User;
 
class AutoCompleteController extends Controller
{
 
    public function index()
    {
        return view('search');
    }
 
    public function search(Request $request)
    {
          $search = $request->get('term');
      
          $result = User::where('name', 'LIKE', '%'. $search. '%')->get();
 
          return response()->json($result);
            
    } 
}

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use App\User;

class AutoCompleteController extends Controller

{

public function index()

{

return view('search');

}

public function search(Request $request)

{

$search = $request->get('term');

$result = User::where('name', 'LIKE', '%'. $search. '%')->get();

return response()->json($result);

}

Create Blade View

In this step we need to create blade view file. Go to app/resources/views and create one file name search.blade.php . After create blade file put the below html code here with jquery ui and css library file :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
  <meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
  <title>Autocomplete Search Using Typeahead JS</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
  <script src="//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>
 <style>
    .container{
    padding: 10%;
    text-align: center;
   } 
 </style>
</head>
<body>
 
<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-12"><h2>Laravel AutoComplete Search Using Typeahead JS</h2></div>
        <div class="col-12">
            <div id="custom-search-input">
                <div class="input-group">
                    <input id="search" name="search" type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search" />
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
 
<script type="text/javascript">
    var route = "{{ url('autocomplete') }}";
    $('#search').typeahead({
        source:  function (term, process) {
        return $.get(route, { term: term }, function (data) {
                return process(data);
            });
        }
    });
</script>
   
</body>
</html>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Autocomplete Search Using Typeahead JS</title>

<style>

.container{

padding: 10%;

text-align: center;

}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<div class="col-12"><h2>Laravel AutoComplete Search Using Typeahead JS</h2></div>

</div>

var route = "{{ url('autocomplete') }}";

$('#search').typeahead({

source: function (term, process) {

return $.get(route, { term: term }, function (data) {

return process(data);

});

}

});

</script>

</body>

</html>

Start Development Server

Now we are ready to run our example so lets start the development server using following artisan command –

php artisan serve

1	php artisan serve

Now, open the following URL in browser to see the output –

Http://localhost:8000/search

1	Http://localhost:8000/search

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