Multiple Where Clause in Laravel not working as needed - laravel

Question

I am trying to get all the expired listings from the db. the table has three fields for the expiry date, to_date_1, to_date_2, to_date_3.
date 2&3 may have a null value but date 1 always has a value. If date 3 is not null I want the query to compare with date 3 and skip date1 &2. if date 3 is null, the query should compare with date 2, otherwise date 1 will be the expiry date. here is my query.
$query = Listing::query()
->where('vendor_id', $vendor->id)
->where('is_deleted', 0)->where('is_published', 1)->where('is_approved', 1)
->where(function ($q) {
return $q->WhereNotNull('to_date_3')->Where('to_date_3', '<', \Carbon\Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d'));
})
->where(function ($q) {
return $q->WhereNotNull('to_date_2')->Where('to_date_2', '<', \Carbon\Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d'));
})
->where(function ($q) {
return $q->orWhere('to_date_1', '<', \Carbon\Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d'));
})
->orderBy('created_at', 'desc');
$listings = $query->paginate(10);
Here is a sample data:
id
from_date_1
to_date_1
from_date_2
to_date_2
from_date_3
to_date_3
1
2021-06-10
2021-08-15
2021-08-16
2021-08-31
2021-09-01
2021-09-15
2
2021-06-25
2021-08-10
2021-08-11
2021-08-22
NULL
NULL
3
2021-06-25
2021-08-20
NULL
NULL
NULL
NULL
if today date is: 21-08-2021, the result should be record: 1 & 2

Answer 1

As Pavlo said group your query inside a where
$query = Listing::query()
->where(function ($query) { // Wrap you code inside a where
$query->where('vendor_id', $vendor->id)
->where('is_deleted', 0)->where('is_published', 1)->where('is_approved', 1)
->where(function ($q) {
return $q->WhereNotNull('to_date_3')->Where('to_date_3', '<', Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d'));
})
->where(function ($q) {
return $q->WhereNotNull('to_date_2')->Where('to_date_2', '<', Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d'));
})
->where(function ($q) {
return $q->orWhere('to_date_1', '<', Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d'));
});
})
->orderBy('created_at', 'desc');
$listings = $query->paginate(10);

Answer 2

Try use orWhere
->where('is_deleted', 0)->where('is_published', 1)->where('is_approved', 1)
->where(function ($q) {
return $q->WhereNotNull('to_date_3')->Where('to_date_3', '<', \Carbon\Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d'));
})
->orWhere(function ($q) {
return $q->WhereNotNull('to_date_2')->Where('to_date_2', '<', \Carbon\Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d'));
})
->orWhere(function ($q) {
return $q->orWhere('to_date_1', '<', \Carbon\Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d'));
})
More about parameters grouping
UPDATING (where -> orWhere -> orWhere give you your sql)