Improved Search Functionality

Classes/Database.php

@@ -637,10 +637,29 @@ class Database {
         return true;
     }
 
-    public function search( $table, $column, $param ) {
+    public function searchColumn( $table, $column, $param ) {
         return $this->action( 'SELECT *', $table, [$column, 'LIKE', '%' . $param . '%'] );
     }
 
+    public function search( $table, $columns, $param ) {
+        if ( empty( $columns ) || ! is_array( $columns ) ) {
+            Debug::log( 'No columns provided for search' );
+            return [];
+        }
+
+        $conditions = [];
+        foreach ( $columns as $column ) {
+            $conditions[] = $column;
+            $conditions[] = 'LIKE';
+            $conditions[] = '%' . $param . '%';
+            $conditions[] = 'OR';
+        }
+        array_pop( $conditions );
+        
+        return $this->action( 'SELECT *', $table, $conditions );
+        // return $this->action( 'SELECT ' . implode( ',', $columns ), $table, $conditions ); // need to find a way to casually make this the default....
+    }
+
     /**
      * Selects data from the database.
      *

Classes/DatabaseModel.php

@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@ use TheTempusProject\Bedrock\Functions\Check;
 use TheTempusProject\Bedrock\Bedrock;
 
 class DatabaseModel extends Model {
-    public $databaseMatrix;
     public $tableName;
+    public $databaseMatrix;
+    public $searchFields;
 
     public function __construct() {
         parent::__construct();
@@ -190,4 +191,19 @@ class DatabaseModel extends Model {
         }
         return $this->filter( $data->results() );
     }
+
+    public function search($param) {
+        if (empty($this->searchFields)) {
+            Debug::log('searchFields is empty');
+            return [];
+        }
+    
+        $result = self::$db->search($this->tableName, $this->searchFields, $param);
+    
+        if ( $result->count() ) {
+            return $this->filter( $result->results() );
+        }
+    
+        return [];
+    }
 }