Laravel eloquent using loop - laravel

Question

I am using eloquent query to filter data. My query is like this and it is working perfectly for now.
$users = User::where('username','LIKE','%'.request('username').'%')
->where('first_name','LIKE','%'.request('first_name').'%')
->where('last_name','LIKE','%'.request('last_name').'%')
->where('gender','LIKE','%'.request('gender').'%')
->where('password','LIKE','%'.request('password').'%')
->SimplePaginate(15);
My request data was like this.
However I need to update this query for dynamic fields. There can be different fields. What I did was to send the request in an associative array. So, my request data turned into like this,
What I intend to do is to put all request data in a search array. Then use a loop to run like the above query. How can I do that?
P.S. I checked in the forum and found some similar questions. Some of them are outdated. Others didn't solve my problem.

Answer 1

If I understand you right you can do like this:
$search = request('search', []);
$users = User::query();
foreach($search as $field=>$value)
{
$users = $users->where($field,'LIKE','%'.$value.'%');
}
$users = $users->SimplePaginate(15);

Answer 2

You can try this.
$search = $request->get('search');
User::where(function ($q) use ($search){
foreach ($search as $key=>$value) {
if($value != null ){
$q->where($key, 'like', "%{$value}%");
}
}
})->get();

Answer 3

The where() clause can also accept an array. With that in mind, you could map over your search parameters and convert it to the format you want and then feed it into the query.
For example:
$search = [
'first_name' => 'John',
'last_name' => 'Smith'
];
$filters = collect($search)->map(function($value, $key) {
return [$key, 'LIKE', "%{$value}%"];
})->values()->toArray();
return User::where($filters)->SimplePaginate(15);