Laravel 5.2 And JqueryUI's Autocomplete Plugin

gistfile1.txt

//SearchController.php
<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input;
use Auth;
use DB;
use Response;

class SearchController extends Controller
{
public function autocomplete(){
	$term = Input::get('term');
	
	$results = array();
	
	// this will query the users table matching the first name or last name.
	// modify this accordingly as per your requirements
	
	$queries = DB::table('users')
		->where('first_name', 'LIKE', '%'.$term.'%')
		->orWhere('last_name', 'LIKE', '%'.$term.'%')
		->take(5)->get();
	
	foreach ($queries as $query)
	{
	    $results[] = [ 'id' => $query->id, 'value' => $query->first_name.' '.$query->last_name ];
	}
return Response::json($results);
}
}

// View
// If you would like to use the form facade, then please insstall it before
// https://laravelcollective.com/docs/5.0/html

{{ Form::open(['action' => ['SearchController@autocomplete'], 'method' => 'GET']) }}
    {{ Form::text('q', '', ['id' =>  'q', 'placeholder' =>  'Search users'])}}
    {{ Form::submit('Search', array('class' => 'btn btn-default')) }}
{{ Form::close() }}

Alternatively you can simply just use the HTML if you dont want the above method using form facade
<form method="GET" action="{{ url('search/autocomplete') }}">
  <input id="q" placeholder="Search users" name="q" type="text" value="">
  <input class="btn btn-default" type="submit" value="Search">
</form>


//Route
Route::get('search/autocomplete', 'SearchController@autocomplete');


//Javascript
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
$(function()
{
	 $( "#q" ).autocomplete({
	  source: "{{ url('search/autocomplete') }}",
	  minLength: 3,
	  select: function(event, ui) {
	  	$('#q').val(ui.item.value);
	  }
	});
});

you need the css

Use
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.1/themes/base/minified/jquery-ui.min.css" type="text/css" />