Pass several columns to an orderBy method via URL - php

Question

I have this code in Lumen 5.6 (Laravel microframework) and I want to have an orderBy method for several columns, for example, http://apisurl/books?orderBy=devices,name,restrictions,category also send asc or desc order.
Lumen's documentation says that we can use the orderBy like this
$books = PartnersBooks::all()->orderBy('device', 'asc')->orderBy('restrictions', 'asc')->get();
So, I made a function with a foreach to fill an array with different orderBy requests values and tried to put on eloquent queries without succeeding.
Can anybody help me?
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
public function index(Request $request)
{
$limit = $request->input('limit');
$books = PartnersBooks::where('is_direct', '=', 1)
->with('direct')
->whereHas('direct', function ($query) {
$query->enable()
->select(['id', 'book_id', 'name', 'devices', 'flow', 'restrictions', 'countries', 'targeting']);
})
->orderBy('id', 'asc')
->paginate($limit, ['id', 'category', 'description']);
$status = !is_null($books) ? 200 : 204;
return response()->json($books, $status);
}

Answer 1

You can do this:
// Get order by input
$orderByInput = $request->input('orderBy');
// If it's not empty explode by ',' to get them in an array,
// otherwise make an empty array
$orderByParams = !empty($orderByInput)
? explode(',', $orderByInput)
: [];
$query = PartnersBooks::where('is_direct', '=', 1)
->with('direct')
->whereHas('direct', function ($query) {
$query->enable()
->select(['id', 'book_id', 'name', 'devices', 'flow', 'restrictions', 'countries', 'targeting']);
});
// Foreach over the parameters and dynamically add an orderBy
// to the query for each parameter
foreach ($orderByParams as $param) {
$query = $query->orderBy($param);
}
// End the query and get the results
$result = $query->paginate($limit);