Laravel whereIn不返回结果

Question

I'm trying to check whether an id is in a column or not and return true or false depending on that. The problem is, the result keeps returning false even though the id is in the array.

The value for column other_users looks like this ["13","14"] :

$user = User::where('id',auth()->user()->id)->first(); // id = 13
$consultation = Consultation::whereIn('other_users',array($user->id))->first();
if($consultation)
    $result = true;
else
    $result = false;
}

dd($result); //always return false

Answer 1

The whereIn() function will not work in this case since the target is varchar (string) you may need to use 'like' in the query, something like:

$consultation = Consultation::where('other_users', 'like', '%"'.$user->id.'"%')->first();