Laravel 5 using OR condition with BETWEEN

Question

Hi can anyone help me building below query in laravel Eloquent i am really confuse in using OR condition with between

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Answer 1

There is an orWhereBetween method available from the Query Builder, but it is undocumented in the Query Builder Documentation. You can however find it in the Laravel API Documentation.

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The explanations below assume that the variables have the following values:

$newStart = '1';
$newEnd = '10';

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Unfortunatelly, using orWhereBetween for the second condition is not applicable in your case, because both whereBetween and orWhereBetween will check if a column value is between two input values. This is fine from your first condition since it checks if the existing_start column value is between $newStart and $newEnd. So this is fine:

->whereBetween('existing_start', [$newStart, $newEnd])

As it will be compiled to:

WHERE `existing_start` BETWEEN '1' AND '10'

However your second condition wants to check if an input value from $newStart is between two column values existing_start and existing_end, and there is no Query Builder method that does that. So this will not work:

->orWhereBetween($newStart, ['existing_start', 'existing_end'])

Because it will be compiled to:

OR `1` BETWEEN 'existing_start' AND 'existing_end'

Notice the backticks ` around 1, because of that MySQL will try to find a column named 1 and throw an error.

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So the best option here is to use orWhereRaw with bindings like this:

DB::table('tbl')
  ->whereBetween('existing_start', [$newStart, $newEnd])
  ->orWhereRaw('? BETWEEN existing_start AND existing_end', [$newStart])
  ->get();

The ? will be replaced by the value of $newStart which will be properly quoted and escaped to avoid SQL injection.

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Or course there is always the option of having two grouped conditions that check the boundaries, which would be equivalent to your BETWEEN condition:

DB::table('tbl')
  ->whereBetween('existing_start', [$newStart, $newEnd])
  ->orWhere(function ($query) use ($newStart) {
      $query->where('existing_start', '<=', $newStart);
      $query->where('existing_end', '>=', $newStart);
  })->get();

Which will compile to:

SELECT * FROM `tbl`
WHERE
  `existing_start` BETWEEN '1' AND '10' OR
  (`existing_start` <= '1' AND `existing_end` >= '1')

Answer 2

You have to group the parameters, adapt the example in the documentation

DB::table('users')
            ->where('name', '=', 'John')
            ->where(function ($query) {
                $query->where('votes', '>', 100)
                      ->orWhere('title', '=', 'Admin');
            })
            ->get();

Answer 3

  $start_date_w1 = Carbon::now()->subDays(7)->format('Y-m-d 00:00:00');
  $end_date_w1 = Carbon::now()->subDays(7)->format('Y-m-d 23:59:59');
  $start_date_w2 = Carbon::now()->subDays(14)->format('Y-m-d 00:00:00');
  $end_date_w2 = Carbon::now()->subDays(14)->format('Y-m-d 23:59:59');
  $parents = AdoptiveParent::whereBetween('created_at', [$start_date_w1,$end_date_w1])
              ->orWhere(function ($query) use($start_date_w2,$end_date_w2) {
                  return $query->whereBetween('created_at', [$start_date_w2,$end_date_w2]);
              })
              ->get();
  return $parents;

this query will help you to find parents from (Adaptive Parent Model), which are created before 7 and 14 days. Check for you have used $start_date_w2,$end_date_w2 parameter for subquery e.g. ->orWhere(function ($query) use($start_date_w2,$end_date_w2)

Answer 4

This work for me.

    $sql->where(function ($query) {
        $query->whereBetween('start_date', ['2018-04-04', '2018-04-25']);
        $query->orWhereBetween('cancelled_at', ['2018-04-04', '2018-05-01']);
    });

Answer 5

You're right, you can use Eloquent's whereBetween(). For OR, you should use orWhere(): https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/queries#advanced-where-clauses

I'm not 100% sure if it'll work, but you can try this:

$data = DB::table('tbl')
        ->whereBetween('existing_start', [$newSTart, $newEnd])
        ->orWhere(function ($query) {
            $query->whereBetween($newStart, [existing_start, existing_end])
        })
        ->get();