Laravel 5 using OR condition with BETWEEN

There is an orWhereBetween method available from the Query Builder, but it is undocumented in the Query Builder Documentation. You can however find it in the Laravel API Documentation.

The explanations below assume that the variables have the following values:

$newStart = '1';$newEnd = '10';

Unfortunatelly, using orWhereBetween for the second condition is not applicable in your case, because both whereBetween and orWhereBetween will check if a column value is between two input values. This is fine from your first condition since it checks if the existing_start column value is between $newStart and $newEnd. So this is fine:

->whereBetween('existing_start', [$newStart, $newEnd])

As it will be compiled to:

WHERE `existing_start` BETWEEN '1' AND '10'

However your second condition wants to check if an input value from $newStart is between two column values existing_start and existing_end, and there is no Query Builder method that does that. So this will not work:

->orWhereBetween($newStart, ['existing_start', 'existing_end'])

Because it will be compiled to:

OR `1` BETWEEN 'existing_start' AND 'existing_end'

Notice the backticks ` around 1, because of that MySQL will try to find a column named 1 and throw an error.

So the best option here is to use orWhereRaw with bindings like this:

DB::table('tbl')  ->whereBetween('existing_start', [$newStart, $newEnd])  ->orWhereRaw('? BETWEEN existing_start AND existing_end', [$newStart])  ->get();

The ? will be replaced by the value of $newStart which will be properly quoted and escaped to avoid SQL injection.

Or course there is always the option of having two grouped conditions that check the boundaries, which would be equivalent to your BETWEEN condition:

DB::table('tbl')  ->whereBetween('existing_start', [$newStart, $newEnd])  ->orWhere(function ($query) use ($newStart) {      $query->where('existing_start', '<=', $newStart);      $query->where('existing_end', '>=', $newStart);  })->get();

Which will compile to:

SELECT * FROM `tbl`WHERE  `existing_start` BETWEEN '1' AND '10' OR  (`existing_start` <= '1' AND `existing_end` >= '1')

You're right, you can use Eloquent's whereBetween(). For OR, you should use orWhere():https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/queries#advanced-where-clauses

I'm not 100% sure if it'll work, but you can try this:

$data = DB::table('tbl')        ->whereBetween('existing_start', [$newSTart, $newEnd])        ->orWhere(function ($query) {            $query->whereBetween($newStart, [existing_start, existing_end])        })        ->get();

This work for me.

    $sql->where(function ($query) {        $query->whereBetween('start_date', ['2018-04-04', '2018-04-25']);        $query->orWhereBetween('cancelled_at', ['2018-04-04', '2018-05-01']);    });