Laravel search query with multiple conditions

Question

Newbie to PHP/Laravel here so please be patient.

I have a webpage that is searching based on 3 criteria for dogs , breed, sex and radius.

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Answer 1

Here's one possible solution, I think there are probably others. Create an empty query builder with the query() function and add the non-null clauses to it, then call the paginate() function at the end.

$builder = Dogs::query();
if (Input::has('search')) {
    $queryString = Input::get('search');
    $builder->where('name', 'LIKE', "%$queryString%");
}
// ... more clauses from the querystring
$dogs = $builder->orderBy('name')->paginate(5);