Laravel eloquent collection query - laravel

Question

I am trying to create a search endpoint for one of my pages but i am having a little trouble writing the query for it to get it going
Team Model
public function members()
{
return $this->hasManyThrough('App\User', 'App\Membership', 'team_id', 'id', 'id', 'user_id');
}
**Member(user) Model **
public function skills()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Skill')->withPivot('boosted');
}
if i access the collection via $team->members; it returns the correct team members
Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection {#1507 ▼
#items: array:2 [▼
0 => App\User {#1508 ▶}
1 => App\User {#1509 ▶}
]
}
i have attempted below within my search function but when i dump the query it basically just returns all the team's and every member belonging to them when it should only be returning 2 members that belong to one specific team like the eloquent collection above.
public function search(Team $team, Request $request)
{
$search = $request->get('search');
$members = Team::with('members')->whereHas('members', function ($q) use ($search) {
$q->where('id', 'like', "%$search%");
})->whereHas('members.skills', function ($q) use ($search) {
$q->where('name', 'like', "%$search%");
})->paginate(10);
return view('team.show', compact('team', 'members'));
}
Are you able to do where() directly on the collection like this?
$members = $team->members;
$memberQuery = $members->where('name', 'like', "%$search%")
->orWhere('id', 'like', "%$search%");
the idea is to go through the member relation within the team model then add the abilty to search through specific fields and do a WhereHas on the skills relation within the member(user model) so i can also search for a field within that too.
I am a little lost on the solution to my problem can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

$members = Team::whereHas('members', function ($q) use ($search) {
$q->where('id', 'like', "%$search%")
->orWhere(function($q) use($search){
$q->whereHas('skills', function($q) use($search){
$q->where('name', 'like', "%$search%");
});
});
})
->with([
'members' => function ($q) use ($search) {
$q->where('id', 'like', "%$search%")
->orWhere(function($q) use($search){
$q->whereHas('skills', function($q) use($search){
$q->where('name', 'like', "%$search%");
});
})
},
'memebers.skills' => function($q) use($search){
$q->where('name', 'like', "%$search%");
}
])
->paginate(10);
whereHas plays the main role, as it will get only those teams who have members, whose id is like $search or their skills have name like $search.
And as we only need to get the members which satisfy the condition, it is being handled in the eager loading(we're eager loading only those particular members whose id is like $search or their skills have name like $search.)
You can refer to this blog. It has explained this kind of approach in detail
https://medium.com/#sander3/laravel-nested-eager-loading-contraints-9742c2dac4b9