Filter and Search Eloquent Models with the Model Filter Package

Laravel Model Filter offers a simple way to filter and search eloquent models by array parameters and query strings.

Here's a simple example to illustrate exactly how this package works. Given the following filter, you can generate with the provided make:filter command:

namespace App\Models\Filters;

use Lacodix\LaravelModelFilter\Filters\DateFilter;

class CreatedAfterFilter extends DateFilter
{
    public FilterMode $mode = FilterMode::GREATER_OR_EQUAL;

    protected string $field = 'created_at';
}

You can apply the CreatedAfterFilter on a model like the following example:

namespace App\Models;

use App\Models\Filters\CreatedAfterFilter;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Lacodix\LaravelModelFilter\Traits\HasFilters;

class Post extends Model
{
    use HasFilters;

    protected array $filters = [
        CreatedAfterFilter::class,
    ];
}

You can then trigger the filter either programmatically or via query string:

Post::filter(['created_after_filter' => '2023-01-01'])->get();

// Multiple filters
Post::filter([
    'created_after_filter' => '2023-01-01',
    'published_filter' => true,
])->get();

// Or by query string: /posts?created_after_filter=2023-01-01
Post::filterByQueryString()->get();

This package includes many features related to filtering models, such as:

• Group filtering
• Filter validation
• Sorting
• Searching
• Date filter type
• String filter type
• Select filter type
• Numeric filter type
• Boolean filter type
• Trashed filter type
• Filtering on relations
• And more

To get started with this package, check out the official documentation; the source code is also on GitHub at lacodix/laravel-model-filter.