Persist Query

Persist request query parameters in Laravel controllers.

Use Case

Suppose you run a bookstore website with two pages; /home and /books. The /books page lists all the books you have stored in your database and allows users to filter books by name and author. Also, suppose a user applies the following filters on the books listing page /books?name=invisible&author=Mark. After navigating away from this page, say to /home and back to /books the applied filters will be lost. This package allows users to continue where they left off after navigating back to /books by restoring the page to its last known state /books?name=invisible&author=Mark.

Installation

composer require brainboxlabs/persist-query

Add Persist Query To Your Laravel Controller

<?php 

namespace App\Http\Controllers; 

use Illuminate\Http\Request; 

class BookController extends Controller 
{ 

    public function __construct() 
    { 
    	$this->middleware('persist-query:index');
    } 
 
    public function index(Request $request) 
    { 
    	// ...
    } 
}

The persist-query:action_name,another_action_name,... middleware should be used with GET controller actions.