Multiple Eloquent Where statements with multiple parameters - laravel

Question

I have a parsing problem where I want to get all of the people with a particular subscription but not people who have another type of subscription. The subscriptions are stored in a comma delineated list in the subscriptions table in the subscriptions column. Here is the code I have so far:
$includeQuery = [];
foreach ($includeSegment as $include) {
$singleQuery = ['subscriptions','like', '%'.$include.'%', 'or'];
array_push($includeQuery, $singleQuery);
}
$excludeQuery = [];
foreach ($excludeSegment as $exclude) {
$singleQuery = ['subscriptions', 'not like', '%'.$exclude.'%', 'or'];
array_push($excludeQuery, $singleQuery);
}
$included = Subscription::where($excludeQuery)->where($includeQuery)->get();
I get results back but some of them have the excluded subscriptions in them.

Answer 1

use whereIn and whereNotIn instead :
Subscription::whereIn($includeSegment)->whereNotIn($excludeSegment)->get();
then you dont need to also iterate segments once they are arrays of strings

Answer 2

The problem with code above was in the boolean parameter I had "or" instead of "and". So only if all of the subscriptions for a particular user were present would the record get thrown out. Here is the updated code:
$includeQuery = [];
foreach ($includeSegment as $include) {
$singleQuery = ['subscriptions','like', '%'.$include.'%', 'or'];
array_push($includeQuery, $singleQuery);
}
$excludeQuery = [];
foreach ($excludeSegment as $exclude) {
$singleQuery = ['subscriptions', 'not like', '%'.$exclude.'%', 'and'];
array_push($excludeQuery, $singleQuery);
}
// $included = Subscription::where($excludeQuery)->where($includeQuery)->get();
$included = DB::table('subscriptions')
->join('app_users', 'app_users.customer_number', '=', 'subscriptions.customer_number')
->join('app_datas', 'app_datas.customer_number', '=', 'subscriptions.customer_number')
->where($includeQuery)
->where($excludeQuery)
->select('app_datas.device_token')
->get();