Laravel and package spatie/laravel-translatable -> Make search query for special character

Question

I use the package Spatie/laravel-translatable to store my translated data in json in the database.

I have a column title :

{
  "fr":"L\u2019\u00e9quipe",
  "en":"Team",
  "de":"Team"
}

As you can see, with the package, special characters are transformed into unicode.

When I want to search, it does not work (it's logical, because I'm looking for the word équipe but in the database it says \u00e9quipe)

$search = $request->get('search')

Events::where('title', 'LIKE', '%' . $search . '%')->published()->get();

How to search through Unicode for it to work?

Thank you

If the column title field contains the raw value `L\u2019\u00e9quipe`, that is a string containing escaped characters. Why don't you use UTF8 all the way through? — Nico Haase, Feb 01 '19 at 13:18

Taha Elkholy · Answer 1 · 2022-12-04T21:16:29.023

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in the Spatie\Translatable\HasTranslations trait use $this->attributes[$key] = json_encode($translations, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);

instead of $this->attributes[$key] = $this->asJson($translations);

edited Dec 04 '22 at 21:16

answered May 13 '22 at 22:55

Taha Elkholy

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score -2 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 28 '23 at 17:19

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$search = $request->get('search');

Events::whereRaw('title COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci LIKE ?', ['%' . $search . '%'])
    ->published()
    ->get();

edited Feb 28 '23 at 17:19

OMi Shah

answered Feb 28 '23 at 17:17

bhdrnzl

1

Probably you should add a little more info to add some value to your answer and make it more useful for future readers ! – OMi Shah Feb 28 '23 at 17:20

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