Laravel Eloquent orWhere Query

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();

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.

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.