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I am using A Search Bar Form which searches in a database of +-175.000 Models. I've installed Scout accordingly to the documentation and imported all the records using scout:import.

Now, I've setup a function in my Controller to do the search and return all Records, but the records are always empty, regardless for what I search.

web.php: 

Route::post('/act/search', ['uses' => 'ActController@searchAct', 'as' =>'searchAct']);

ActController@searchAct:

public function searchAct(Request $request)
{
    $actes = Act::search($request->search)->paginate(100);
    return view('act')->with('actes', $actes);
}

The form:

<form class="navbar-form navbar-left" action="{{ route('searchAct') }}" method="post">
    {{ csrf_field() }}
    <div class="form-group">
        <input type="text" name="search" id="search" class="form-control" placeholder="Search">
    </div>
    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Search</button>
</form>

As far as I see this should work but dd($actes) say that the collection is empty. I've included the use Searchable; Entrait in my Model. Scout index the records fine: All [App\Act] records have been imported.

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I had a similar issue a few days ago and as previously mentioned in one of the comment above, laravel-scout wasn't generating the index file but I couldn't figure out why. Maybe the folks that built the package intended it that way for performance reasons.

Anyway in my own case I ended up integrating TNTSearch available here (with an easy to understand documentation) to do the indexing for me.

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