Laravel search logic - laravel

Question

For the past two days I was trying to build this relatively simple search system but I just can't figure this out..
Basically, I have a few select tags which contain options to filter the users..
Something like this:
<div class="col-sm-4">
<label for="price">Price:</label><br>
<select class="browse-select" name="price">
<option>Any</option>
<option value="1">Less than 100$</option>
<option value="2">More than 100$</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4">
<label for="delivery">Delivery:</label><br>
<select class="browse-select" name="delivery">
<option>Any</option>
<option value="1">1 month or less</option>
<option value="7">7 days or less</option>
<option value="3">3 days or less</option>
</select>
</div>
Those are in a form (get request form) and here's my controller.
public function index(Request $request){
$users = User::paginate(10);
$service = Service::all();
//Search Logic
$category = $request->input('category');
$price = $request->input('price');
$delivery = $request->input('delivery');
$searchQuery = Service::with('user');
$searchQuery->where('category','=',$category);
if ($price == 1) { //price input has a value of 1 which means (less than 100)
$searchQuery->where('price','<',100)->where('category','=',$category);
}elseif($price == 2){
$searchQuery->where('price','>',100)->where('category','=',$category);
}
$result = $searchQuery->get();
return view('browse.index', compact('users','service','result'));
}
As you can see I have a relationship between Users and Services. Because I need to access user's services in order to compare the values and query the database.
What I have so far, works but only for one select. If I select a category, that works fine and the user is displayed. But, if I try for example to choose a category and also a price then it returns all the users.
How should I do this properly? I feel like I'm missing something here..

Answer 1

I believe you need to add additional checks and split your query. Something like
$searchQuery = Service::with('user');
if($request->has('category'))
{
$searchQuery->where('category', $request->input('category'));
}
if($request->has('price'))
{
$operator = (1 === $request->input('price')) ? '>' : '<';
$searchQuery->where('price', $operator, 100);
}
$result = $searchQuery->get();