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Full-Text Searching with Scout

By Joe Ferguson

Laravel Scout is a package that makes adding full-text searching of your Eloquent models simple. Scout is driver based, which means you will need to use a driver for the data source you’ll be searching. Scout ships with the Algolia driver out of the box. While Algolia is a fine solution offering a free tier and reasonable rates, what if you aren’t ready for such a level of commitment? We’re going to cover installing and configuring Laravel Scout and utilizing a community supported MySQL driver so you can test drive Scout in your application before making the leap to Algolia (or another driver).

This article was originally published in the February 2018 issue of php[architect] magazine. To read the complete article please subscribe or purchase the complete issue.

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