laravel advanced wheres not working - laravel

Question

my function with advanced wheres is not giving any syntax error but its not even working. Its displaying. i have written this function following this example http://laravel.com/docs/queries#advanced-wheres
public function getData($wheres1 = array(),$wheres2 = array(),$wheres3 = array(),$wheres4 = array(),$wheres5 = array(),$wheres6 = array(),$wheres7 = array())
{
$query = Listing::query();
$result = array();
$query = $query->where(function($q){
if(!empty($wheres1)){
$count=0;
foreach($wheres1 as $where){
if($count==0)
{ $q = $q->where($where['field'], $where['operator'], $where['value']);
$count++;
}
else
$q = $q->orWhere($where['field'], $where['operator'], $where['value']);
}
}
})->where(function($q){
if(!empty($wheres2)){
$count=0;
foreach($wheres2 as $where){
if($count==0)
{ $q = $q->where($where['field'], $where['operator'], $where['value']);
$count++;
}
else
$q = $q->orWhere($where['field'], $where['operator'], $where['value']);
}
}
})->where(function($q){
if(!empty($wheres3)){
$count=0;
foreach($wheres3 as $where){
if($count==0)
{ $q = $q->where($where['field'], $where['operator'], $where['value']);
$count++;
}
else
$q = $q->orWhere($where['field'], $where['operator'], $where['value']);
}
}
});
$result = $query->orderBy('id', 'desc')->paginate(3);
return $result;
}

Answer 1

You need to add use for each where
$query = $query->where(function($q) use ($wheres1) {
....
}

Answer 2

You may try this approach:
$query = Listing::query();
if(is_array($wheres1) && count($wheres1)) {
$first = array_shift($wheres1);
$query->where($first['field'], $first['operator'], $first['value']);
if(count($wheres1)) {
foreach($wheres1 as $where) {
$query->orWhere($wheres['field'], $wheres['operator'], $wheres['value']);
}
}
}
Now repeat the same process for rest of the wheres, for example ($wheres2):
if(is_array($wheres2) && count($wheres2)) {
$first = array_shift($wheres2);
$query->where($first['field'], $first['operator'], $first['value']);
if(count($wheres2)) {
foreach($wheres2 as $where) {
$query->orWhere($wheres['field'], $wheres['operator'], $wheres['value']);
}
}
}
At last:
return $query->orderBy('id', 'desc')->paginate(3);