How to create a subquery using Laravel Eloquent?

Question

I have the following Eloquent query (This is a simplified version of a query which consists of of more wheres and orWheres hence the apparent round

Answer 1

This is how you do a subquery where:

$q->where('price_date', function($q) use ($start_date)
{
   $q->from('benchmarks_table_name')
    ->selectRaw('min(price_date)')
    ->where('price_date', '>=', $start_date)
    ->where('ticker', $this->ticker);
});

Unfortunately orWhere requires explicitly provided $operator, otherwise it will raise an error, so in your case:

$q->orWhere('price_date', '=', function($q) use ($start_date)
{
   $q->from('benchmarks_table_name')
    ->selectRaw('min(price_date)')
    ->where('price_date', '>=', $start_date)
    ->where('ticker', $this->ticker);
});

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EDIT: You need to specify from in the closure in fact, otherwise it will not build correct query.