laravel:how to use LOWERCASE Function in Eloquent Query?

Question

I want to implement case insensitive search following is my code for search

/*get the title to search*/
$newsTitle=Input::get(\'srach_newsTitle\')?Input:         


        

Answer 1

Use LOWER()

$query->whereRaw('LOWER(`newsTitle`) LIKE ? ',[trim(strtolower($newsTitle)).'%']);