Search query lost on pagination in laravel

Question

I'm quite new to laravel and backend stuff altogether so this might be a newb question!

My website has a search engine which is used to look up users.

Right now I'm using a pretty simple search controller, below is the code.

class SearchController extends Controller {
public function getResults(Request $request) {
    $query = $request->input('query');

    if (!$query) {
        return redirect()->route('home');
    }

    $users = User::where(DB::raw("CONCAT(first_name, ' ', last_name)"), 'LIKE', "%{$query}%")->where('role', '=', 2)
    ->orWhere('username', 'LIKE', "%{$query}%")->where('role', '=', 2)
    ->orWhere('profile_text', 'LIKE', "%{$query}%")->where('role', '=', 2)
    ->orWhere('keywords', 'LIKE', "%{$query}%")->where('role', '=', 2)
    ->simplePaginate(1);




    return view('search.results')->with('users', $users);
 }
}

And the results page:

@extends('templates.default')

 @section('content')
    <h3>Results for "{{ Request::input('query') }}"</h3>


    @if (!$users->count())
        <p>No results found, sorry.</p>
    @else

    <div class="resultRow">
        <div class="">
            @foreach ($users as $user)
                     {{ $user->username }}
            @endforeach

        {!! $users->render() !!}
        </div>
    </div>
    @endif
@stop

So if I were to search "John", I'd get the result of all the Johns, with the URL being http://localhost/search?query=John .

However, if I were to click on the next page of results (http://localhost/search?page=2), the query is lost, so my search controller just sends me back to my home page.

How do I keep the query through pagination?

EDIT: I'm pretty sure my problem is that it's going through the search controller once again after it click on page 2, but I have no idea how I would fix that.

Answer 1

Switched

{!! $users->render() !!} 

with

{!! $users->appends(Request::except('page'))->render() !!}

Works like a charm. Credit goes to : Laravel 5 route pagination url encoding issue (unrelated issue)

Answer 2

in your getResult function, pass a $query variable to the view

return view('search.results', ['users' => $users, 'query' => $query]);

Then in your view, appends the query or other variables you need

{{ $users->appends(['query' => $query])->links() }}

you can check more in laravel docs