laravel where or condition code example

Example 1: AND-OR-AND + brackets with Eloquent

//mysql query be like this
// ... WHERE (gender = 'Male' and age >= 18) or (gender = 'Female' and age >= 65)

//Eloquent query is
// ...
$q->where(function ($query) {
    $query->where('gender', 'Male')
        ->where('age', '>=', 18);
})->orWhere(function($query) {
    $query->where('gender', 'Female')
        ->where('age', '>=', 65);	
})
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Example 2: laravel where condition with if

$query = DB::table('user_ads')
            ->join('ads', 'users_ads.ad_id', '=', 'ads.id')
            ->orderBy($column, $method);

if ($input['search']) {
    $query->where('short_description', $input['search']);
}

if ($input['category']) {
    $query->where('category', $input['category']);
}

$query->join('users', 'users_ads.user_id', '=', 'users.id')
    ->select('ads.id', 'ads.img1', 'ads.short_description', 'ads.category', 'ads.product', 'ads.price', 'users.city')

$result= $query->get();

return $result;