select from table (laravel) - where and orWhere - laravel

Question

So, I'm using laravel and I want to make this query to work in laravel 'formula'
SELECT * FROM `complaints` WHERE (`fID` = 0) AND (`hide_topic` = 0 OR (`hide_topic` <= 0 OR (`hide_topic` > 3 AND byID = 52))) ORDER BY `status` ASC, `id` DESC
And I made something like this in laravel but not sure that selects correctly like the query above does.
DB::table('complaints')
->where('fID', '=', 0)
->where('hide_topic', '=', 0)
->orWhere('hide_topic', '<', 0)
->orWhere('hide_topic', '>', 3)
->where('byID', '=', 52)
->orderBy('status', 'asc')
->orderBy('id', 'desc')
->get();
Any help?

Answer 1

If you carefully examine your query. You can definitely remove some extra filters. If you see inner where if hide_topic <= 0 it also covers hide_topic =0 so you can reduce your query to.
SELECT *
FROM `complaints`
WHERE `fID` = 0
AND (`hide_topic` <= 0 OR (`hide_topic` > 3 AND byID = 52))
ORDER BY `status` ASC, `id` DESC
Best thing from laravel is that you can actually see the query that will be executed using query builders or eloquent model using toSql method. You can use toSql method at place of get, all or first functions.
$result = DB::table('complaints')
->where('fID', '=', 0)
->where(function($query) {
$query->where('hide_topic', '<=', 0)
->orWhere(function($query) {
$query->where('hide_topic', '>', 3)
->where('byID', '=', 52);
});
})
->orderBy('status', 'asc')
->orderBy('id', 'desc')
->get();
// to check the query just replace `->get();` to `->toSql();` in above query.
Now if you don't want any modifications in your existing query. You can reference to #OMR answer. Still I'll put it here.
$result = DB::table('complaints')
->where('fID', '=', 0)
->where(function($query) {
$query->where('hide_topic', '=', 0)
->orWhere(function($query) {
$query->where('hide_topic', '<=', 0)
->orWhere(function($query) {
$query->where('hide_topic', '>', 3)
->where('byID', '=', 52);
});
});
})
->orderBy('status', 'asc')
->orderBy('id', 'desc')
->get(); -- use toSql() to actually see the query before bindings.

Answer 2

you simply use where with clouser for every compound condition:
$admin_level=3;
$playerid=52;
DB::table('complaints')->where('fID', '=', 0)
->where(function ($query)use($admin_level,$playerid){
$query->where('hide_topic', '=', 0)->orWhere(function ($query)use($admin_level,$playerid){
$query->Where('hide_topic', '<', 0)->orWhere(function ($query)use($admin_level,$playerid){
$query ->Where('hide_topic', '>', $admin_level)
->where('byID', '=', $playerid);
});
});
})
->orderBy('status', 'asc')
->orderBy('id', 'desc')
->get();