Laravel Eloquent search two optional fields - php

Question

I'm trying to search two optional tables using eloquent:
$users = User::where('ProfileType', '=', 2)
->where(function($query) {
$query->where('BandName', 'LIKE', "%$artist%");
$query->or_where('Genre', 'LIKE', "%$genre%");
})->get();
This works fine for return all results when a user does an empty search, but I am not sure how to adjust this for to search for bandname when that is present and vise versa.

Answer 1

Just to explain what happens on answer below:
Eloquent does a tricky thing here: When you call User::where(...) it returns a Database\ Query object. This is basically the same thing as DB::table('users')->where(...), a chainable object for constructing SQL queries.
So having:
// Instantiates a Query object
$query = User::where('ProfileType', '=', '2');
$query->where(function($query) {
// Adds a clause to the query
if ($artist = Input::get('artist')) {
$query->where_nested('BandName', 'LIKE', "%$artist%", 'OR');
}
// And another
if ($genre = Input::get('genre')) {
$query->where_nested('Genre', 'LIKE', "%$genre%", 'OR');
}
});
// Executes the query and fetches it's results
$users = $query->get();

Answer 2

Building on Vinicius' answer here's what worked:
// Instantiates a Query object
$query = User::where('ProfileType', '=', '2');
// Adds a clause to the query
if ($artist = Input::get('artist')) {
$query->where('BandName', 'LIKE', "%$artist%");
// Temp Usernamesearch
$query->or_where('NickName', 'LIKE', "%$artist%");
}
// Genre - switch function if artist is not empty
if ($genre = Input::get('genre')) {
$func = ($artist) ? 'or_where' : 'where';
$query->$func('Genre', 'LIKE', "%$genre%");
}
// Executes the query and fetches it's results
$users = $query->get();
Turns out that the second optional field must use or_where only if $artist is not set.
Thanks for your help

Answer 3

I think this is what youre after. Your view would have a form to search artist/genre one or the other can be set, or both, or none.
$users = User::where('ProfileType', '=', 2);
if (Input::has('artist')) {
$users = $users->where('BandName', 'LIKE', '%'.Input::get('artist').'%');
}
if (Input::has('genre')) {
$users = $users->where('Genre', 'LIKE', '%'.Input::get('genre').'%');
}
$users = $users->get();

Answer 4

$query = FormEntry::with('form')->where('domain_id', $id);
$query->where(function($query) use ($search, $start, $limit, $order, $dir) {
$query->where('first_name', 'LIKE', "%{$search}%")
->orWhere('last_name', 'LIKE', "%{$search}%")
->orWhere('email', 'LIKE', "%{$search}%")
->offset($start)
->limit($limit)
->orderBy($order, $dir);
});
$entries = $query->get();
$totalFiltered = $query->count();