Laravel 5.2 - Left Join DB::Raw not working?

Question

I have the following query where I\'m trying to use DB::Raw() for the left join but I\'m getting error:

Missing argument 2 for Illuminate

Answer 1

The leftJoin function is declared like this:

 public function leftJoin($table, $first, $operator = null, $second = null)

You want to pass your raw functions in as the second column:

return $this->model->from('alerts as a')
                   ->leftJoin('locations AS l', 'l.id', '=', DB::Raw("JSON_UNQUOTE(JSON_EXTRACT(a.criteria, '$.locationId'))"))
                   ->leftJoin('industries as i', function($join){
                        $join->on(DB::raw("find_in_set(i.id, JSON_UNQUOTE(JSON_EXTRACT(a.criteria,  '$.industries')))",DB::raw(''),DB::raw(''))); 
                   })

                   ->where('user_id', '=', $userId)
                   ->selectRaw("a.id
                             , a.name
                             , a.criteria
                             , GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT(i.name) SEPARATOR ', ') as 'Industries'")
                   ->groupBy('a.id')
                   ->orderBy('a.created_at', 'desc');

The find_in_set suggestion came from here.

I'm not sure what '$.locationId' is, but if it's a variable, you can pass that along as a parameter within an array as the second parameter on the DB::raw() function.