Many to Many Relationship with 2 pivot table data search - php

Question

Skills
-------
id name
1 PHP
2 Laravel
Qualifications
-----------------
id name
1 MBA
2 Graduate
3 Post Graduate
students
------------
id name
1 John
2 Smith
2 pivot tables
student_skills
student_id skill_id
1 1
1 2
2 1
student_qualifications
tutor_id qualification_id
1 2
1 2
2 2
In front-end the user can select multiple qualifications(checkboxes) and skills(checkboxes) according to the options selected we need to display the data.
For Example: How to get students with qualification graduate and MBA and skills Laravel and PHP

Answer 1

Here is an example on how you can do it ( it might be inaccurate due to the lack of details in your question but it should give you an idea)
(i think you better use a Mutli-select box instead of check-boxes for skills & qualification)
Assuming you want to search student by skills & qualification
And that you have the right Relations methods inside your models
//Don't forget to import Students model at top of the controller
public function whatever(Request $request)
{
$data = Student::with('qualifications', 'skills');
// assuming that the form will pass an array of skills names
//if the form passes an array of ID's of skills it becomes easier
if (!empty($request->skills)) {
foreach ($request->skills as $skill) {
$data->whereHas('skills', function ($query) use ($skill) {
$query->where('id', $skill);
})->get();
}
}
// same goes for qualifications
if (!empty($request->qualifications)) {
foreach ($request->qualifications as $qualification) {
$data->whereHas('qualifications', function ($query) use ($skill) {
$query->where('id', $qualification);
})->get();
}
}
// execute the query now
$data->get(); // or pagniate(10)
}
if you are passing an array of ID's instead of names
if (!empty($request->skills)) {
$data->whereHas('skills', function ($query) use ($skills) {
$query->whereIn('id', $skills);
})->get();
}
same goes for qualifications.
I hope you get the point here, you can Sort and stuff , this might not be the exact thing u need, but It will help you a lot if you get it.