JSON Search in laravel eloquent

Question

I am storing destinations field as json type in mysql

example column value [\"Goa\", \"Moonar\", \"Kochi\"]

I

Answer 1

In Laravel 5.6 and higher you can use whereJsonContains method:

Package::whereJsonContains('destinations',["Goa"])->get();

But not all DB support it: https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/queries#json-where-clauses

Answer 2

Probably forced to use a partially raw query like:

use DB; (top of file definition)

DB::table('packages')->whereRaw('json_contains(destinations, \'["Goa"]\')')->get();

And if you have a model:

Package::whereRaw('json_contains(destinations, \'["' . $keyword . '"]\')')->get();

assuming your query above works in SQL.