How do you wrap Laravel Eloquent ORM query scopes in parentheses when chaining?

Question

In Eloquent, I\'d like to generate this query:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE a=1 AND ( b=2 OR c=3 );

But I seem to be generating this query instead

Answer 1

To wrap queries, you can do something like this:

$builder->where(function ($query) {
    $query->where('gender', 'Male')
        ->where('age', '>=', 18);
})->orWhere(function($query) {
    $query->where('gender', 'Female')
        ->where('age', '>=', 65);   
})

It will output the following query:

WHERE (gender = 'Male' and age >= 18) or (gender = 'Female' and age >= 65)