Hey Alex, I have a problem in class 38.

Error: Call to a member function map() on null

in this part:

 1$filters = collect($this->queryFilters)
 2->filter(fn ($filter) => !empty($filter))
 3->recursive()
 4->map(function ($value, $key) {
 5    return $value->map(fn ($value) => $key . ' = "' . $value . '"');
 6})
 7->flatten()
 8->join('AND');
 9 
10dd($filters);

But my code is the same as yours, I've reviewed everything and I'm not finding the problem.

Hi Alex, How do I download all the episodes at once?

Hello Alex, can subscribers have access to the latest source code please? Even if it's got bugs in it.

Another way of calculating the Order status I would like to share here:

On the Order.php model, I define this array:

1public $statuses = [
2    'placed_at' => 'Order Placed',
3    'packaged_at' => 'Order Packaged',
4    'shipped_at' => 'Order Shipped',
5];

Then, the status() function looks as follows:

1public function status()
2{
3    return collect($this->statuses)
4        ->last(fn ($status, $key) => filled($this->{$key}));
5}

If anyone has a problem with this error

Undefined variable $meilisearchClientClassName

It is not the course

Laravel Scout just updated as of yesterday 06.01.2023 to 0.7.1

The package ahs a bug in it

This version works 0.7.0

Hope it helps

Hi guys

Does anyone know how to change the limits on Meilisearch to bring more results down than the default of 20 please.

Further to my posts final conclusion on Meilisearch

Not the best search engine in the world

Using the same techiques as in the video Alex only shows two products

Doing the same thing brings the variations up on the category where no products are actually in that category so when you click to choose that product you get an error

CALL TO MAP FUNCTION A STRING

Thats problem one problem two is that if you have 9 products in that category the Meislearch will only show 6 on v0.21.1

On later versions it only shows 5 products so if you want to show the customer 100 products in that category Meilisearch is useless

public $category; public function render() { $search = Product::search('', function ($meilisearch, string $query, array $options) {

 1        $options['facetsDistribution'] = ['colour', 'size'];
 2
 3        return $meilisearch->search($query, $options);
 4
 5    })
 6    ->raw();
 7
 8    $products = $this->category->products->find(collect($search['hits'])->pluck('id'));
 9
10    return view('livewire.product-browser',[
11        'products' => $products
12    ]);
13}

As you can see exactly the same code as Alex types it bring back 6 and thats it.

[Lecture 19] What is if we delete a user? this will fail because of the user_id in the Cart. I have fixed that with a deleting method in User model. Then also the Email verification will fail according to breeze provided tests, wich i fixed with set uuid in cart to nullable.

Not sure that are the best way for fixing that but it works with all tests green.

Hi guys question and I know this is nothing to do with what Alex has showed

Why is Meissearch only showing 6 products in the category when there are 18 and why are the filters that are not in that catgory showing any answers

Update to my previous posts

For Meilsearch to work you would need Version 0.21.1

And this in your json

"meilisearch/meilisearch-php": "^0.19.0"

What Alex is showing is working on mine with these [versions but not repeat not work with newer versions

Facets Distribution was changed as of version 27 to facets which after trying too work with it with this course was a waste of time

So to conclude

When installing Meilisearch from their official website where you see

git checkout latest

Change latest to v0.21.1

Use the link for meilisearch.php in the composer json and what Alex is showing will work .

A note for Meiliseatrch developers is stop changing things and make the documentation easier to understand

It took me 3 days to work this out .

Hope it helps

A lot of people are probably wondering why facets distribution is causing so many problems

In the video Alex explains that the filters must be added manually in Postman

There is another way by creating a Scout Service Provider and under register

$client = app(Client::class); $client->index('products') ->updateFilterableAttributes(['colour', 'fragrance', 'theme', 'price', 'category_ids', 'size']);

This is mine

Now this sort of works but when I click on the category the attributes for every product in the database comes up not just the category

Now why is this

If you notice Alex is using Meilisearch v0.25.0

In this version at the time of recording everything was upto date

However Meilisearch has upgraded by 5 versions since then

In the the video on the product browser Alex shows this

$options['facetsDistribution'] = ['colour', 'fragrance', 'theme', 'size'];

On version 30 of Meilsearch facetsDistribution is un recognised because Meilisearch has took this out

And with no easy to understand documentation form Meilsearch were gonna struggle

One person tried Facets and it worked I tried it and it doesnt work .

Thats why thers so many problems .

Hi. Help my ))) Lesson #33

Attribute category_ids is not filterable. This index does not have configured filterable attributes. 1:13 category_ids = 2 (View: C:\xampp\htdocs\app-shop\resources\views\categories\show.blade.php)

Hi community, I am struggling with the price filter.

 1
 2$maxPrice = $category->products->max(fn ($product) => $product->price->getAmount());
 3$price = $request->get('price') ?? $maxPrice;
 4
 5 $search = Product::search(
 6            query: trim($request->get('search')) ?? '',
 7            callback: function (Indexes $meilisearch, string $query, array $options) use ($category, $filters, $price) {
 8                $options['filter'] = 'category_ids = ' . $category->id;
 9
10                if ($filters)
11                {
12                    $options['filter'] .= ' AND ' . $filters;
13                }
14
15                $options['filter'] .= ' AND price <= ' . $price;
16
17                $options['facets'] = ['size', 'color'];
18
19                return $meilisearch->search($query, $options);
20            },
21        )

The price filter here is not working. I've been reading about an issue with Laravel Scout/Meilisearch that integers are considered strings; hence, the '<=' never works. None of the products is returned.

I even tried to add a where() clause on the Product::search() before calling get(). This returns all products ignoring the price filter.

->where('price <=', $price)

I appreciate your feedback.

Thanks Bilal

Facets distribution problem solved

Version 25 is still available

OPEN YOUR TERMINAL

git clone https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch cd meilisearch

On documentation this will install the latest version which is 30

git checkout latest

DO NOT INSTALL THIS

INSTALLL THIS VERSION

git checkout V0.25

Update the rust toolchain to the latest version

rustup update

Compile the project

cargo build --release

Execute the server binary

./target/release/meilisearch

To run this in production on ubuntu

https://lindevs.com/install-meilisearch-on-ubuntu

THE LINK FOR UBUNTU

sudo wget -qO /usr/local/bin/meilisearch https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/releases/v0.25.0/download/meilisearch-linux-amd64

Please note installing Version 30 until alec updates the course to show us about the facet distribution will not work on version 30

You will also need to update your Compser.json file for the meilisearch.php to version 23

https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch-php/releases/tag/v0.23.0

Hope that heps everyone

Any ideas guys

Json deserialize error: unknown field facetsDistribution, expected one of q, offset, limit, page, hitsPerPage, attributesToRetrieve, attributesToCrop, cropLength, attributesToHighlight, showMatchesPosition, filter, sort, facets, highlightPreTag, highlightPostTag, cropMarker, matchingStrategy at line 1 column 28

Using Meilisearch v0.30.0

Version v.0.25.0 used in the video is not longer available

Hi Alex,

I would like to ask, why the payment intent is attached to the cart and after successful payment that the cart is deleted and the order is created. This way we know that the order is paid because we create it after successful payment, but we have lost the payment intent relation. Maybe we can preserve converted carts and link it the with corresponding order or we can create order payments table, where we can add all order payments.

Hope you are well and continue this course as it is in Development for quite a long time.

Hi Alex,

Could you please provide a better way of getting cart variation stocks amount different from $variation->stocks->sum('amount') as stocks relation will grow with orders and refills

Also why would you prefer Laravel collection methods instead of normal foreach in syncAvailableQuantities for building $syncedQuantities as this calls a lot of methods and callbacks instead of 1 native loop?

Thank you for time and outstanding work!

Hi, on constrained columns index is added automatically, but parent_id does not have a foreign key or index on products and variations tables, is that intentional?

Hello, no download project files link ?

hi, what is the database client software used ?

Hi folks. I struggled with this error "Json deserialize error: unknown field facetsDistribution, expected one of q, offset, ...". Unknown to me, there had been a breaking change for the search endpoint. "facetsDistribution" search parameter has now been renamed "facets". https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch/releases. Thought that may help someone save some hours. I found it the hard way.

I dont understand stucked again video 36. Import to postman from where?

Hi Alex. Excellent course. But I found a small flaw in EP39. The max price filter does not accept a different subvariant price (different price per color/size variant). Can you fix it? Thank you!

The link of the image is for me: http://localhost/storage/2/nike.jpeg But the image does not appear in browser if I enter this link, how does it work? Thanks

hello please can anyone help i get a mysql error use the laravel adjacency helper tree()->get()->toTree() i've search for a solution online but nothing

Where can I find all the coding? I am jumping between sections to learn what I need.

any suggestions on how to build up $queryFilters in situations where your "variations" are in sepperate tables (color in one table, size in another)?

What is the key shortcut for VS Code for adding the namespace on top of the classes?

When we created the image gallery it was mentioned that we could present the images of the variations. How can I do this? I tried in many ways and I couldn't.

I tried: $this->product->variations->getMedia();

But it always gives an error that the collection does not exist or the method does not exist. How can I get the images of the variations? Because I'm interested in having an image of the product and the variations

Hi All. Alex please he could show us you how to do pagination on products because when there are a lot of products it can be a lot with ram memory. THX PS: It is about filtering products and displaying in categories.

Is this course now finished? I have enjoyed the content so far but if this is the end I am bitterly disappointed, I don't know if it's just me but I expected a lot more and think this is nowhere near complete yes it matches the demo on the first video but I just assumed that was a teaser and there was more behind the scenes, are we expected to always enter data directly into the database and manually upload product images via the command line, I expected that these things would at least be included in some sort of admin panel. There is also a lot of messy code were Alex says we'll come back to that later... we'll fix it we'll just do it like that for now... then never returns to it again? It still says under development but I have been following for over a week now with no new content.

How are you? Why files attached with videos when I toggle removed from the site

why files attached with videos are hidden from videos?

Great course! I have just noticed that the subtotal is getting sent through to the orders page which does not include shipping. Should I change the subtotal column in the orders table to total or add an extra column and include both? Then to get the total should I use getTotalProperty() or create a total() method in either App\Cart\Cart.php or App\Models\Order.php?

Sorted it it was me trying to cut conrers thinking I didnt need to to something I did I didnt fill i something maughty

Anyone come across this

Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder::firstOrCreate(): Argument #1 ($attributes) must be of type array, App\Models\ShippingAddress given, called in /var/www/vhosts/leeweaver.uk/app/Http/Livewire/Checkout.php on line 112

Alex, do you have the completed code on Github or anything please...I need to look at something and why me version isn't working.

Alex how are you putting them categories in a dropdown menu

Really nice course so far(@part 30). I am enjoying it, just wondering if this application architecture can cover simple products also(for example a product as it is without any variations at all) along with the variable products without poorly "patching" it (for example fake variations). Maybe I am wrong but as it stands I think it will need a good revamp to be able to handle simple type products. I d love to hear your thoughts about it guys.

Anyone come across this error

Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder::firstOrCreate(): Argument #1 ($attributes) must be of type array, App\Models\ShippingAddress given, called in C:\wamp64\www\leeweaver\app\Http\Livewire\Checkout.php on line 118

($this->shippingAddress = $this->shippingAddress->firstOrCreate($this->shippingForm)) ?->user() ->associate(auth()->user()) ->save();

Alex A little information for you

Stripe is very strict on what they allow to to be sold.

I sell spiritual products and when to Stripe and had it working a customer paid for a spiritual product and we had o give the money back and the customer was furious because Stripe said they dont allow any Spiritual services entertainment services like netflix because there to high risk Working through Pay Pal have never had problems at all

Also Im working on Ubuntu 20:14 and after uploading the files we have the same problem

Invalid facet distribution, the fields box, size are not set as filterable.

Now doing this on local host it works hw do we get this working update the facets in product whats the script please and can you please do a video on hooking pay pal up to this Im using a the moment Ominpay with Paypal sdk

Hi, I have this error: Invalid facet distribution, the fields color, size are not set as filterable. yet I followed the tutorial to the letter. I don't understand where the error comes from

Hi I can't find tree method in staudenmeir/laravel-adjacency-list package. It seems missing

Does anyone know why I keep getting Attribute `price` is not filterable. Available filterable attributes are: ``. 1:6 price = 45500 when a closure is passed with a filter option.

Product's toSearchable

 1public function toSearchableArray(): array
 2    {
 3          return [
 4                  'id' => $this->id,
 5                  'title' => $this->title,
 6                  'slug' => $this->slug,
 7                  'price' => $this->price,
 8                  'description' => $this->description,
 9                  'category_ids' => $this->load('categories')->categories->pluck('id')->toArray(),
10                  'image' => $this->getFirstMediaUrl(),
11         ];
12     }

The related search

1Product::search('', function (Indexes $meilisearch, string $query, array $options) {
2  $options['filter'] = 'price = 45500';
3  return $meilisearch->search($query,$options);
4})->get();

Thanks.

Right Meilisearch is picking up the variation indexes

public function toSearchableArray() { return array_merge([

 1  'id' => $this->id,
 2  'title' => $this->title,
 3  'slug' => $this->slug,
 4  'price' => $this->price,
 5  'category_ids' => $this->categories->pluck('id')->toArray(),
 6  ],
 7
 8  $this->variations->groupBy('type')
 9
10    ->mapWithKeys(fn ($variation, $key) => [
11
12        $key = $variation->pluck('title')
13    ])
14
15    ->toArray()
16);

Dispaying variation not the title

0

array ID 3 TITLE 10 ml Lavender Oil SLUG 10ml-lavender-essential-oil PRICE 3.49 CATEGORY_IDS

array

Trying update in post man { "filterableAttributes": ["size", "category_ids"] }

This is all i get

{ "uid": 61, "indexUid": "products", "status": "enqueued", "type": "settingsUpdate", "enqueuedAt": "2022-03-31T18:57:16.6859462Z" }

Any suggesitions

Hi Alex, This package staudenmeir/laravel-adjacency-list doesn't seem to work anymore. I got tree notice "method tree() not found".

After looking at this problem Undefined array key "facetsDistribution" it seems that you habe to change the the facet attributes in post man and update them after do that ad following Alex still Undefined array key "facetsDistribution"

I got tree notice "method tree() not found". Why is that ?

A little information for you Centos 7 is not compatible with mealisearch only Centos 8 and if your using a Plesk Obsiddian thats not compatible wtth Centos 8 the only one for mealisearrch you can use is Ubuntu 20.04

Notifications was working on Alpine Js when adding the x-cloak and following he instuctions now not working

Updating item quantity it showing the quantity as one alex please help me on it

as an ecommerce app, this course should have image upload with file ponds. I understand we can do it, but rushing the course wont help us

Alex a quick one about the way Categories in EP 3 is setup using parent_id on the same table with slug being unique

How will a category structure of Brands having Nike as a child, same Nike will be a child of Men, women, kids, and accessories category, Adidas will have similar structure likewise all brands

1BRANDS
2    NIKE                ADIDAS
3        MEN                    MEN
4        WOMEN                WOMEN
5        KIDS                KIDS
6        ACCESSORIES         ACCESSORIES

Clothing will also have Men, Women, kids as children, since slug is unique these items can't be duplicated. How will these issues be solved using the same structure demonstrated in Ep 3?

Ep. 28 , when removing the second item in cart , cart component get refreshed but with wrong item due to lack of key

in Ep <livewire:cart-item :variation="$variation"/>

it should be <livewire:cart-item :variation="$variation" :key="$variation->id"/>

update: sorry i just noticed its fixed in EP 29

http://laravel-ecommerce.test/storage/2/air-force-1-white.jpeg this URL is not showing image but URL is correct but while loading in another browser its not showing image

Hey Alex, can you please make a video about facetsDistribution? Right now we only have this:

1$options['facetsDistribution'] = ['size', 'color'];

But i think is important how to add this dynamically.

Hope this makes sense to you.

Now another question!! But now Livewire and image upload.

I'm applying what I'm learning in the course in a test e-commerce for the company I work for.

But I have the need that when the user chooses the product, he has to upload an image and I need to associate this image with the shopping cart and the order.

The upload itself, I'm already doing it and it falls into a temporary folder and saved in a temporary table to only later associate it with the user/cart/order.

But I can't find the best way to make this association. And I would like to use the media gallery as we use for product images.

Let's talk about Meilisearch!

It was very interesting and constructive to know how Meilisearch works to index products to speed up searches.

But let's suppose that we have an e-commerce administrative area and that we can add new products and variations, how can we make sure that meilisearch is always updated with the table of products and product variants that we have?

is it possible to do this directly from Laravel (PHP) or would we have to do a cronjob that every x time would update the meilisearch?

What would be the best way to get around this situation?

Hi Alex the source code is bit confusing, are you preparing it like other series ?

can we also ask for realtime order updates and notifications on changes with orders within the website (not email), please. I know we can do $emit event but its not gonna do broadcasting. Doing that will fulfill the lack and take this project to next level!

I am waiting to hear back from you!

I strongly recommend you introduce 3d secure payment with livewire without cashier using only stripe-php library. Most of the banks in europe these days only accepts 3d secure payments.

Alex, any reason you stopped putting the source with the courses?

Suggestion: When saving the order details like subtotal, you should also be storing the "current" price of the variation that is ordered. Reason is when displaying back the orders, you're displaying the price for the variation as it currently is in the products table, but that price may have changed since the order was placed. If that happens the price show for the order won't match up to the prices of the variation.

Also, you should be storing the shipping rate that was applied to the order. Same scenario applies here as my paragraph above. I'm sure you're getting my point. Basically any price that was used during an order should be stored for future reference so that it is accurate to that actual order and not current pricing.

On episode 22 (Adding items to cart) I get a strange 500 error when using this code block to update the existing item quantity.

This this is the block in question:

 1public function add(Variation $variation, $quantity = 1)
 2{
 3    if ($existingVariation = $this->getVariation($variation)) {
 4        $quantity += $existingVariation->pivot->quantity;
 5    }
 6    $this->instance()->variations()->syncWithoutDetaching([
 7        $variation->id => [
 8            'quantity' => min($quantity, $variation->stockCount()),
 9        ],
10    ]);
11}

If I remove the IF Statement I can add 1 product, but if the IF Statement is there I get the livewire 500 error.

On the Network DevTools it say it's coming from the product-selector | Status 500 | Type: fetch

There is No Stacktrace or error. Only a blank black modal pops up.

Hey Alex, the order confirmation template is missing from the download section.

Alex, I've noticed that when you type the curly braces you go back after adding one, to add the second. Isn't your vscode set up to just hit '{{' and then it completes the tags for you?

Hi, Alex WDYT? about use a view sum stocks and subtract the orders quantity, and after just make a join ?

Hi, anybody know how to implement 15% discount for first order if user registered?

Hey Alex, the checkout template is missing from download list.

Ep. 48 - logged user save address perfectly, but if quest save address I get this error:

Call to undefined relationship [] on model [App\Models\ShippingAddress].

1($this->shippingAddress = ShippingAddress::whereBelongsTo(auth()->user())->firstOrCreate($this->shippingForm))
2
3            ?->user()
4
5            ->associate(auth()->user())
6
7            ->save();

Anybody face to this issue?

what's the app you are using for Postgres? not seen that one before.

Hello, when creating a new category with new products and variations such as:

Category: Coffee Machines product: luxury espresso machine. variation: fresh milk container

The "coffee machines" category page also lists the variations of other products as filters.. a size 9 rainbow colored coffee machine would be nice, but it doesn't really make sense. did I miss something about this in the episodes? I think it has something to do with [facetsDistribution]?

Product variations basically as trees, is this a common way of doing this? It kinda makes sense but I have not seen it done like this while reviewing ecommerce solutions.

Also, I'm curious to see how that would work in an admin UI/UX wise. Everything is done now directly on the database, but that is not real life. Are you planning to do (some) admin functionality too?

Am getting this error on the ProductBrowser,

Attribute category_ids is not filterable. Available filterable attributes are: ``. 1:13 category_ids=4

Am using meilisearch v0.25.2

please asist

Hi Alex, what about 'min' price? When less than min price - all filters disappear. Ep 39 Filtering by price.

ep 29: orderByPivot('id') should be used instead

Hey Alex, I have a problem in class 38.

Error: Call to a member function map() on null (View: /home/ddrummond/Projects/e-commerce/resources/views/categories/show.blade.php)

in this line: ->map(function ($value, $key) { return $value->map(fn ($value) => $key . ' = "' . $value . '" AND'); })

But my code is the same as yours, I've reviewed everything and I'm not finding the problem

Hey Alex, when selecting both colors e.g., white and black shouldn't there be both shoes visible?

Unable to Fetch and show $skuVariant result when selecting color and size. Also no result if using DD on skuVariant. Stuck here on 3:38min on 10. Faking adding the final variation video. Can anyone help me on how to solve this. Thanks.

Hey Alex, thanks for this course. I was playing around with this and notice that if you have one product in the "New in" category only with one color variation and size this shows the others. Is normal this behaviour? I mean, I think that the live wire component must show the variations related to the product that list.

So, if you select the variation "rainbow" this clear the other 2 variations and if you revert that selection all the variations shows up.

Alex, if you haven't already planned on this suggestion I would like to see the browser query string updated with the searched filters so that when you click on a product and then hit the back button, the browser will bring you back to the same search filters. This concept is very important and logical in these kinds of searches.

Hi, when you use cknow/laravel-money like that, how do you handle price inputs in backoffice? Any advices?

Hi.

After uploading the image, when I call its url, I get 404 as a result. The path is correct and the image is in the folder. Anyone with the same problem, how to solve it?

hi not sure why meilisearch returns a error when i try to add the search query. Laravel returns the following;

Attribute category_ids is not filterable. Available filterable attributes are: ``. 1:13 category_ids = 18

in the meilisearch mini-dashboard the id's are shown as following:

array [ 0:13 1:8 ]

im on laravel 9.0 and meilisearch v0.25.2

hope you can help me out.

Alex can you do a courses of Laravel/Paypal for this and include in this course please

Hi Alex.

It would be nice if you can push the code being each commit a step.

🙂

AM not sure why my product variation relationship ain't working, I ended up doing this in the selectedVariationModel

return Variation::find($this->selectedVariation)->descendants()->depthFirst()->get();

Also my inline conditional statement aint working too. so I had to remove the "?" in the statement. e.g

From: {{ Str::title($variations->first()?->type) }}

To: {{ Str::title($variations->first()->type) }}

Is there anything am missing in my setup?

I get this error:

syntax error, unexpected '->' (T_OBJECT_OPERATOR) (View: .../resources/views/livewire/product/product-selector.blade.php)

Great Course! i'm getting a 404 when loading the image im using homestead/ vagrant any tips on how to get the image displayed properly ?

Awaiting new episodes!!!!!

So what if we need to make this cart in api like form mobile app or react app how we can handle the session ?

is anybody gettting this error using the Laravel Money package Problem 1 - Root composer.json requires cknow/laravel-money ^1.0 -> satisfiable by cknow/laravel-money[v1.0.0, v1.0.1, v1.0.2, v1.0.3]. - cknow/laravel-money[v1.0.0, ..., v1.0.3] require illuminate/support ~5.1 -> found illuminate/support[v5.1.1, ..., 5.8.x-dev] but these were not loaded, likely because it conflicts with another require.

You can also try re-running composer require with an explicit version constraint, e.g. "composer require cknow/laravel-money:*" to figure out if any version is installable, or "composer require cknow/laravel-money:^2.1" if you know which you need.

Another cool course. Alex, how to implement if some product not have any variations???

Can't wait to get started!. I'm curious do we use Laravel Cashier to handle the payment processing portion??

Why not use laravel adjacency list for variations too? It's pretty much the same concept as categories.

What SQL client are you using?

Any new videos today?

Great work, Alex. This course will help me a lot. Thank you 🙏

Hi Alex, will this cover any verification at checkout? For example, if two customers are buying the same item with low stock value?

Pretty Amazing course. Will you cover the functionality like deals/sale and discounts, where customers can add coupon codes for certain percentage of discounts later in course?

How would you deal with the URLs to make them more SEO friendly? e.g. categories/brands/nike/new-in instead of just /categories/new-in.

This looks amazing, Alex. Will you be making shipping costs dynamic based on destination city or country (i.e. city 1 = $5, city 2 = $10, etc.) ?

Awesome Alex! Question though:

Will you be covering displaying/selecting variants with images and/or color options?

Hi, how often will new episodes come out?