Laravel 4 Advanced Where - Unknown Column - php

Question

I have a query which looks like this:
$items = Item::live()
->with('location')
->where('last_location_id', Input::get('last_location_id'))
->get();
The background of this is...
2 tables: Items & Cars.
The live scope is:
public function scopeLive($query)
{
return $query->whereHas('basic_car', function($q)
{
$q->whereNotNull('id')->where('sale_status', 'Live');
});
}
This basically checks the cars table for a matching id to that of the items 'car_id' field and will run some where clauses on the cars table.
I now however want to check another field on the cars table, but using the Input::get('last_location_id') from the original query.
$items = Item::live()
->with('location')
->where('last_location_id', Input::get('last_location_id'))
->orWhere('ROW ON THE CARS TABLE' = Input::get('last_location_id'))
->get();
This does't work, then I tried:
$items = Item::live()
->with('location')
->where('last_location_id', Input::get('last_location_id'))
->orWhere(function($query)
{
$query->where('cars.Location', Input::get('last_location_id'));
})
->get();
Which results in an unknown column 'cars.Location' error.
My next test was to create another scope:
public function scopeLiveTest($query)
{
return $query->whereHas('basic_car', function($q)
{
$q->whereNotNull('id')->where('sale_status', 'Live')->where('Location', 1); // hardcoded ID
});
}
And replacing the live() scope with that works but I dont get the affect of the orWhere in the query itself and I also cannot specify a ID from the Input.
How can I do this?

Answer 1

You can pass a parameter to scope like this:
$items = Item::liveAtLocation(Input::get('last_location_id'))
->orWhere(function( $query ) { // to get the OR working
$query->live()
->with('location')
->where('last_location_id', Input::get('last_location_id'));
})
->get();
And for the scope:
public function scopeLiveAtLocation($query, $location_id)
{
return $query->whereHas('basic_car', function($q) use ($location_id)
{
$q->whereNotNull('id')->where('sale_status', 'Live')->where('Location', $location_id);
});
}