Laravel - Query Builder - Or Where Clauses

When chaining together calls to the query builder's where method, the "where" clauses will be joined together using the and operator. However, you may use the orWhere method to join a clause to the query using the or operator. The orWhere method accepts the same arguments as the where method:

    
    $users = DB::table('users')
                        ->where('votes', '>', 100)
                        ->orWhere('name', 'John')
                        ->get();
	

If you need to group an "or" condition within parentheses, you may pass a closure as the first argument to the orWhere method:

    
    $users = DB::table('users')
                ->where('votes', '>', 100)
                ->orWhere(function($query) {
                    $query->where('name', 'Abigail')
                          ->where('votes', '>', 50);
                })
                ->get();
	

The example above will produce the following SQL:

    
    select * from users where votes > 100 or (name = 'Abigail' and votes > 50)
	

You should always group orWhere calls in order to avoid unexpected behavior when global scopes are applied.