Laravel grouping where clauses in Eloquent

Question

I have created Eloquent query in laravel 5.4 in which I want to filter data through 6 different combination which are as follows:

1. Category
2. Subcategory
3. industry
4. style
5. orientation
6. color

This is the query I have used

 $updatedproducts  = Product::Where('category', $cat)
                     ->Where('subcategory', $subcat)
                     ->whereIn('industry', $industrytags)
                     ->orWhereIn('style', $styletags)
                     ->orWhereIn('orientation', $orientationtags)
                     ->orWhereIn('color', $colortags)
                     ->paginate(12);

Its working fine except one thing that category and subcategory is ignored when I fetch results from different category and subcategory I want data where category and subcategory should always match and other 4 remaining filter can be optional.

Answer 1

You need to group as optional conditions:

$updatedproducts  = Product::Where('category', $cat)
                 ->Where('subcategory', $subcat)
                 ->where(function ($where) use ($industrytags, $styletags,  $orientationtags, $colortags) {
                    $where->whereIn('industry', $industrytags)
                        ->orWhereIn('style', $styletags)
                        ->orWhereIn('orientation', $orientationtags)
                        ->orWhereIn('color', $colortags);
                 })
                 ->paginate(12);

Answer 2

Try your query in following way:

$updatedproducts  = Product::Where('category', $cat) 
            ->Where('subcategory', $subcat)
            ->where(function($q) use($industrytags ,$styletags, $orientationtags,$colortags) {
                $q->whereIn('industry', $industrytags)
                    ->orWhereIn('style', $styletags)
                    ->orWhereIn('orientation', $orientationtags)
                    ->orWhereIn('color', $colortags);
            })
            ->paginate(12);

it will always match for category && subcategory And other fields are optional.

Hope this will help