Laravel Eloquent orWhere Query

The best approach for this case is using Laravel's equivalent for SQL's IN().

Project::whereIn('id', [17, 19])->get();

Will be the same as:

SELECT * FROM projects WHERE id IN (17, 19)

This approach is nicer and also more efficient - according to the Mysql Manual, if all values are constants, IN sorts the list and then uses a binary search.

public function getSearchProducts($searchInput)
    {
        $products = Cache::rememberForever('getSearchProductsWithDiscountCalculationproducts',  function () {
            return DB::table('products_view')->get();
        });

        $searchProducts = $products->filter(function ($item) use($searchInput)  {
            return preg_match('/'.$searchInput.'/i', $item->productName) || preg_match('/'.$searchInput.'/i', $item->searchTags) ;
        });

         $response = ["status" => "Success", "data" => $searchProducts ];
        return response(json_encode($response), 200, ["Content-Type" => "application/json"]);
    }

use filter functionality for any customize situations.

You could do in three ways. Assume you've an array in the form

['myselect' => [11, 15, 17, 19], 'otherfield' => 'test', '_token' => 'jahduwlsbw91ihp'] which could be a dump of \Input::all();

1.    Project::where(function ($query) {
         foreach(\Input::get('myselect') as $select) {
            $query->orWhere('id', '=', $select);
         }
      })->get();
   

2.    Project::whereIn('id', \Input::get('myselect'))->get();
   

3.    $sql = \DB::table('projects');
      foreach (\Input::get('myselect') as $select) {
          $sql->orWhere('id', '=', $select);
      }
      $result = $sql->get();
   

In laravel 5 you could do it this way.

$projects = Projects::query();

foreach ($selects as $select) {
    $projects->orWhere('id', '=', $select);
}

$result = $projects->get();    

This is very useful specially if you have custom methods on your Projects model and you need to query from variable. You cannot pass $selects inside the orWhere method.