Laravel Match Against

A simple macro for doing match against fulltext searches with the Eloquent ORM api, currently in beta.

Requirements

• Laravel 5.x
• MySQL 3.3+

composer require sciku1/laravel-match-against

Laravel 5.5

You're done!

Laravel 5.x

You must register the service provider in your config/app.php

'providers' => [
    ...
    Sciku1\LaravelMatchAgainst\Providers\MatchAgainstServiceProvider::class,
]

Usage

To run match against queries, the field must have a fulltext index, currently there only way to do this is

DB::statement('ALTER TABLE `table_name` ADD FULLTEXT index_name(col1, col2)');

Order

The default behaviour is to order. Example:

Model::match(['col1', 'col2'])->against('search terms')->get();

will generate

SELECT * FROM models ORDER BY (MATCH (col1) AGAINST ('search terms')) DESC, (MATCH (col2) AGAINST ('search terms')) DESC

Where

To limit the results, you must use whereAgainst()

Model::match(['col1', 'col2'])->whereAgainst('search terms')->get();

will generate

SELECT * FROM models WHERE (MATCH (col1) AGAINST ('search terms')) > 0, (MATCH (col2) AGAINST ('search terms')) > 0