Laravel Eloquent - Where Clause ignored - php

Question

I have a filter method in my controller that is very simple. It correctly filters by project and customer but the status part is just ignored. Doing it straight on the database works.
I suspect it has to do with status being a string. Accepted statuses are 'C' and 'O'.
Never ran into this before. Thanks in advance!
Edit: I want to chain where calls as "AND", I need the results to satisfy all 3 criteria. However, it returns all models event if i strip down the query to: Job::with(['users', 'project', 'files'])
->where('status', $status);
How can that fail? I dont't get that.
Edit 2: Hell, even Job::where('status', $status)->get(); fails to bring records where status = 'C' or 'O', while it works if i query straight on the database.
public function doFilter($customer_id, $project_id, $status)
{
$jobs = collect();
if ($customer_id || $project_id || $status) {
$query = Job::query()->with(['users', 'project', 'files']);
$query->when($project_id, function ($query, $project_id) {
return $query->where('project_id', $project_id);
});
$query->when($customer_id, function ($query, $customer_id) {
return $query->where('customer_id', $customer_id);
});
$query->when($status, function ($query, $status) {
return $query->where('status', $status);
});
// dd($status);
$jobs = $query->get();
}
return $jobs;
}

Answer 1

The example above will produce the following SQL
"select * from `jobs` where (`status` = ?) and (`customer_id` = ?) (`project_id` = ?)"
Which mean the matching records from jobs table should satisfy all where clauses
You may fix it using
public function doFilter($customer_id, $project_id, $status)
{
$jobs = collect();
$query = Job::query()->with(['users', 'project', 'files'])->where(function($query) use ($status) {
$query->when($status, function ($query, $status) {
// dump('here 1');
return $query->where('status', $status);
});
})->orWhere(function ($query) use ($customer_id) {
$query->when($customer_id, function ($query, $customer_id) {
// dump('here 2');
return $query->where('customer_id', $customer_id);
});
})->orWhere(function ($query) use ($project_id) {
$query->when($project_id, function ($query, $project_id) {
// dump('here 3');
return $query->where('customer_id', $project_id);
});
});
$jobs = $query->get();
return $jobs;
}
The new code i provided will produce the following SQL
"select * from `jobs` where (`status` = ?) or (`customer_id` = ?) or (`project_id` = ?)" // Only one where clause must be satisfied