Needle V2 - Laravel Faceted Search

Description

Needle V2 is a faceted search system build with Laravel marked up with Blade template. All search request perform with ajax so there is no redirecting or refreshing the page, it return the result very quickly. All codes are support any version of Laravel.

Why Needle V2?

All codes are very simple and nested properly. It’s very easy to modify. All of the search keys are returning form database so no need to add too many search options or checkbox in html just add your products to database and the search panel will update itself. Any kind of website can use this faceted search system. ex: any kind of eCommerce, Hotel Booking, Automobile Showroom etc.

Crawl efficiency & SEO performance

This can be an enormous challenge for eCommerce sites, which can have hundreds – or even thousands – of pages which are similar versions of the same product/category. With multiple possible combinations of attributes (color, sizes, material, etc.) for each product on the site, Googlebot could waste a ton of your crawl bandwidth crawling in and out of navigational filters.

Needle uses Ajax to perform search and navigate to page. The main benefit of using AJAX for faceted navigation is that a new URL is not created when a user is on a page and applies a filter or sort order. The entire process happens client-side with JavaScript, without involving the web server.

Server Requirements

You will need to make sure your server meets the following requirements:

PHP >= 7.3
BCMath PHP Extension
Ctype PHP Extension
Fileinfo PHP Extension
JSON PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
OpenSSL PHP Extension
PDO PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
Tokenizer PHP Extension
XML PHP Extension

Other Framework

Bootstrap 4.0.0
jQuery 3.2.1
jQuery UI 1.12.1
Normalize.css 7.0.0

Update Log

2022.11.14 - Upgraded to Bootstrap 5
2022.10.30 - Upgraded to Laravel 9
2022.01.13 - Bugfix on products-colors relation.
2021.08.24 - Add new range slider (touch compatible).
2021.08.14 - Add intermediary table for "Products" and "Colors". From now on a product can have multiple colors.
2021.01.19 - Remove "Load More >>>" button if there is no more items.
2020.11.04 - Upgrade to Laravel 8.0
2020.07.28 - Upgrade to Laravel 7.22.2
2020.04.30 - Bugfix on "ajax product loading" while refreshing browser.
2019.04.09 - Responsive Design
2018.12.27 - Compatible with IE11 & Edge
2018.12.27 - Move product listing view code to New Blade File from Controller (Easier to modify product listing design than before)
2018.12.27 - Improve ajax pagination
2018.06.15 - Add "Clear all filters" button
2018.06.15 - Replace custom pagination with laravel-bootstrap default pagination (more efficient, less bug)
2018.06.15 - Improve code quality. Reduce search time and page loading time.
2018.03.24 - Category, Brand, Color, Type and Offers can be search by the "Search Box"
2018.03.07 - Ensure compatibility with Laravel 5.6
2018.02.10 - Display available product quantity on search list
2018.01.22 - Upgrade search engine
2017.12.06 - Bug fix: '500 server error' on `offers` selection
2017.11.09 - Bug fix: Stop previous Ajax request if new request starts. (effective on large database or low bandwidth)
2017.11.01 - Bug fix on "Load more >>>" of "Type" filter
2017.11.01 - Add meta tags to improve SEO and control Spider Crawler
2017.10.23 - Collapsible search option
2017.10.23 - Add "Load more >>>" in search option
2017.09.17 - Initial Upload