Laravel eloquent complex search query question - laravel

Question

Have been trying different approaches to perform a search query with Eloquent on multiple and nested many-to-many and hasmany relationships but having trouble finding the solution.
To simplify below the part of the models where I want to perform the search using 'model', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%'.
The models
class Company extends Model {
// the class properties, dates, etc...
public function offices(){
return $this belongsToMany(Office::class);
}
}
class Office extends Model {
// the class properties, dates, etc...
public function companies(){
return $this belongsToMany(Company::class);
}
public function addresses(){
return $this belongsToMany(Address::class);
}
}
class Address extends Model {
// the class properties, dates, etc...
public function offices(){
return $this belongsToMany(Office::class);
}
public function services(){
return $this belongsToMany(Service::class);
}
public function countries(){
return $this belongsToMany(Country::class);
}
}
class Service extends Model {
// the class properties, dates, etc...
public function addresses(){
return $this belongsToMany(Address::class);
}
}
class Country extends Model {
// the class properties, dates, etc...
public function addresses(){
return $this belongsToMany(Address::class);
}
}
The goal to to search on the different models based on the main model which is Company. In pseudo code would be something like the following:
Find in Company where name like $request->name
Or where Company website like $request->name
Or where Office office_name $request->name
Or where Address street $request->name
Or where Address country.name $request->name
Or where Service addresses.service.name $request->name
A Company has many Office
An Office has many Address
An Address has a Country and
An Address has many Services.
In all of them, and to simplify (i'll probably be able to extrapolate and work o other fields for each model, I'll be using the name column. Eg. company name, office name, address name, service name country name.
What I have now is the following which is not performing the search as I need:
public function search(Request $request)
{
$data = Company::Active()->with('offices', 'addresses', 'offices.addresses')
->where('company_name', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%')
->orWhere('company_short_description', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%')
->orWhere('company_long_description', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%')
->orWhere('company_website', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%')
->whereHas('offices', function ($query) use ($request) {
$query->where('name', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%');
})
->whereHas('offices.addresses', function ($query) use($request){
$query->where('name', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%')
->orWhere('address_city', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%');
})
->orderBy('company_name')
->paginate(20);
return response()->json($data, 200);
}
Thank you in advance for any help or tips on the better solution to perform this broad (complex) search query with Eloquent.

Answer 1

I think I could manage the query. Not sure if the best approach or it might need some optimization, but I could get at least the most approximate result sets from the below query. Suggestions on improvements are welcome :)
public function search(Request $request)
{
$data = Company::Active()->with('offices', 'addresses', 'offices.addresses')
->where('company_name', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%')
->orWhere('company_short_description', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%')
->orWhere('company_long_description', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%')
->orWhere('company_website', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%')
->orWhereHas('offices', function ($query) use ($request) {
$query->where('name', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%');
})
->orWhereHas('offices.addresses', function ($query) use($request){
$query->where('name', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%')
->orWhere('address_city', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%');
})
->orWhereHas('offices.addresses.services', function ($query) use($request){
$query->where('name', 'LIKE', '%' . $request->name . '%');
})
->orderBy('company_name')
->paginate(20);
return response()->json($data, 200);
}