Laravel: dynamic where clause with Elouquent

Question

I am calling URL with search params which are dynamic. How could I form proper Eloquent query?

In theory:

1. query
2. query whe

Answer 1

You can just use the where statement. For ex: on users table or User model, you want dynamic search on name, id. You can do this

$where = [];
$firstName = $request->get('first_name');
if ($firstName) $where[] = ['first_name', 'like'. '%' . $firstName . '%'];
$id = $request->get('id');
if ($id) $where[] = ['id', $id];
$users = User::where($where)->get();

By default, it will return all the users, if anything exists in $where array, it will apply the where condition on that.