Where and If Statements Laravel Eloquent

Question

I have built a multi filter search for my website but I cant seem to find any documentation on multiple if statements inside of where for my search.

Returns Lots of Results

$data = Scrapper::paginate(15);

Returns none.. need it to be this way to have where statements with IF see bellow.

$database = new Scrapper;

$database->get();

Example of what I want to do..

    $database = new Scrapper;

    if (isset($_GET['cat-id'])) {

        $database->where('cat_id', '=', $_GET['cat-id']);

    }

    if (isset($_GET['band'])) {

        $database->where('price', 'BETWEEN', $high, 'AND', $low);

    }

    if (isset($_GET['search'])) {

        $database->where('title', 'LIKE', '%'.$search.'%');

    }

    $database->get();

Answer 1

Very similar to this: Method Chaining based on condition

You are not storing each query chains.

$query = Scrapper::query();

if (Input::has('cat-id')) {
    $query = $query->where('cat_id', '=', Input::get('cat-id'));
}
if (Input::has('band')) {
    $query = $query->whereBetween('price', [$high, $low]);
}
if (Input::has('search')) {
    $query = $query->where('title', 'LIKE', '%' . Input::get($search) .'%');
}

// Get the results
// After this call, it is now an Eloquent model
$scrapper = $query->get();

var_dump($scrapper);

Where and If Statements Laravel Eloquent

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