Search for Property by City or GeoObject

Now, that we have properties in our database, let's start building the search.

Goals of This Lesson

• Create API endpoint (Route + Controller) for searching the properties by city, country, or geographical object
• Write PHPUnit tests for all those cases

By the end of this lesson, we will see these tests passing in Terminal:

Creating Controller and Route

In later lessons, we will have more parameters for the search, but we have to start somewhere. So, for starters, we will try these criteria:

• By city
• By country
• Close to a geographical object (by its latitude/longitude)

Let's build the controller and method for this...