Translate SQL Search Query to Eloquent Query

Question

I would like to have the following query.

select * from `items` 
    where (`item_name` LIKE 'foo' or `item_description` LIKE 'foo') 
    and `item_type` = 'type1' 

Translated into Eloquent. I have come up with the following statement:

$items = Item::where('item_type', '=', 'type1')
    ->orWhere('item_name','LIKE','%'.$q.'%')
    ->orWhere('item_description','LIKE','%'.$q.'%')
    ->sortable(['id' => 'desc'])
    ->paginate(10);

In the above snippet, $q will be foo (it's a search query).

The problem is that this does not return exactly what I want since it also returns items that belong to another item_type instead of the type1 in my example.

How can I translate the above SQL query in an Eloquent query so that it only returns the items which contain foo and which are of type Type1 only?

Answer 1

Try this. You need a nested where closure:

$items = Item::where('item_type', '=', 'type1')
                ->where(function($query) use ($q) {
                    $query->where('item_name','LIKE','%'.$q.'%')
                          ->orWhere('item_description','LIKE','%'.$q.'%');
                })
           ->sortable(['id' => 'desc'])
           ->paginate(10);