Searching and Querying Products

Retrieving a list of products can be as simple as querying the Product model. But real E-commerce systems attribute lots of features to products that involve other models and DB tables like:

• Return simple products AND master products with all their variants;
• Retrieve products within one or more categories;
• Query products having red and blue color properties;
• Get products that are assigned to a certain channel;
• Find products with their name containing a search term.

Imagine combining these like: "Get products from category "Men's shoes" that have color 'red' and 'yellow' and style 'casual' properties, containing 'Retro' in their names but only those within the 'retail' channel. Get both plain and master products and paginate them in chunks of 50 items".

This is a pretty common scenario in E-commerce, but can be a hell of a complexity when working with data structures. Vanilo has the ProductSearch class to simplify your life with complex, multi-model queries.

use Vanilo\Foundation\Search\ProductSearch;

$products = (new ProductSearch())
    ->withinTaxon(Taxon::findBySlug('mens-shoes'))
    ->withinChannel(Channel::findBySlug('retail'))
    ->havingPropertyValuesByName('color', ['red', 'yellow'])
    ->havingPropertyValuesByName('style', ['casual'])
    ->nameContains('Retro')
    ->paginate(50);