Laravel | Search in 2 tables - php

Question

I'm having a problem with my Search functionnality on my website, I have 2 tables: user and review , In my review table, the owner column is equal to the username column in user table, I want to be able to return in the same result the username of the user table and just below the number of review which I can get with:
Review::where('owner', '=', xxx)->where('invitation_id', '')->count();
The xxx should be equal to the username in the user table
And I have to do this to get the username:
User::where('username', '=', xxx)->first();
What I would like to do (I know this is wrong):
$result = User::where('email','LIKE','%'.$search_key.'%')
->orWhere('username','LIKE','%'.$search_key.'%')
AND
Review::where('username', '=', *$result->username* )
->get();
And I would like to be able to return the search result like this in my result.blade.php:
<h3>Username: {{ user->username }}</h3>
<h3>Username: {{ review->number_review }}</h3>
I checked on the Laravel docs to make a relationship between these 2 tables but can't figure it out, I hope what I said is understandable.

Answer 1

You can use eloquent relationship.
// app/Review.php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Review extends Model
{
public function users()
{
return $this->hasOne('App\User', 'owner', 'username');
}
}
I do not suggest two table relation with username/owner. I suggest to you relation with user primary_id
You can get user info with following code;
Review::where('owner', '=', xxx)->where('invitation_id', '')->with('users')->count();
It getting user info with ->with('users') condition in Review model.

Answer 2

You achieve the required matching criteria by using join and parameter grouping clause
$result = DB::table('users as u')
->join('review as r', 'u.username', '=', 'r.owner')
->where('email','LIKE','%'.$search_key.'%')
->orWhere(function ($query) {
$query->where('u.username','LIKE','%'.$search_key.'%')
->where('r.owner','LIKE','%'.$search_key.'%');
})
->get();
Which will produce where clause as
WHERE u.email LIKE '%somevalue%' OR (r.owner LIKE '%somevalue%' AND u.username LIKE '%somevalue%')
For review count
$result = DB::table('users as u')
->select('u.*',DB::raw("COUNT(*) as review_count"))
->join('review as r', 'u.username', '=', 'r.owner')
->where('u.email','LIKE','%'.$search_key.'%')
->orWhere(function ($query) {
$query->where('u.username','LIKE','%'.$search_key.'%')
->where('r.owner','LIKE','%'.$search_key.'%');
})
->groupBy('u.username')
->get();

Answer 3

You will need to join your user table to the review table.
Something along these lines, might need tweaking.
$result = User::query()
->join('review', 'owner', 'username')
->where('email','LIKE','%'.$search_key.'%')
->orWhere('username','LIKE','%'.$search_key.'%')
->orWhere('username', $result->username)
->orWhere('owner', $result->username)
->get();