How to use orWhere to combine results in Laravel? - php

Question

I'm trying to find the slugs complete and incomplete model TaskboardColumn, then I only want the values of the user and the project.
Here is what I've tried:
Model
public static function projectOpenTasks($projectId, $userID=null)
{
$taskBoardColumn = \App\TaskboardColumn::where('slug', 'incomplete')->first();
$taskBoardColumn2 = \App\TaskboardColumn::where('slug', 'inprogress')->first();
$projectTask = \App\Task::where('tasks.board_column_id', $taskBoardColumn->id)->orWhere('tasks.board_column_id', $taskBoardColumn2->id);
if($userID)
{
$projectIssue = $projectTask->where('user_id', '=', $userID);
}
$projectIssue = $projectTask->where('project_id', $projectId)
->get();
return $projectIssue;
}
Controller
$this->openTasks = Task::projectOpenTasks($this->project->id);
View
<ul class="list-task list-group" data-role="tasklist">
<li class="list-group-item" data-role="task">
<strong>#lang('app.title')</strong>
<span class="pull-right"><strong>#lang('app.dueDate')</strong></span>
</li>
#forelse($openTasks as $key=>$task)
<li class="list-group-item row" data-role="task">
<div class="col-xs-8">
{{ ($key+1).'. '.ucfirst($task->heading) }}
</div>
<label class="label label-danger pull-right col-xs-4">{{ $task->due_date->format($global->date_format) }}</label>
</li>
#empty
<li class="list-group-item" data-role="task">
#lang('messages.noOpenTasks')
</li>
#endforelse
</ul>
With this code I'm getting all the tasks, and I need just this project's tasks.

Answer 1

You can use grouping to achieve this
$projectTask = \App\Task::where(function($q) {
$q->where('tasks.board_column_id', $taskBoardColumn->id);
$q->orWhere('tasks.board_column_id', $taskBoardColumn2->id)
})->get();
Thanks

Answer 2

orwhere is used in places where only one of the query has to run. just like and keyword in programming orwhere is used in sense of query.
following is the code snippet -
$projectTask = $query->where('tasks.board_column_id', $taskBoardColumn->id)
->orWhere('tasks.board_column_id', $taskBoardColumn2->id)
->get();