In my database, country_code
and phone_number
are two different fields. The user is entering a single string containing country code and phone number to login. In order to validate this, I have to concatenate the columns country_code
and phone_number
in the eloquent where clause.
Can someone tell me how to do this ? I am giving my query below.
$user = self::where('phone_number', '=', $username)->get()->first();
You can use whereRaw with a raw SQL expression and bind the parameters with the second argument.
whereRaw("CONCAT(`country_code`, `phone_number`) = ?", [$username]);
Try the following code:
$user = self::whereRaw("CONCAT_WS(' ',`country_code`, `phone_number`) = ? ", [$username])->get()->first();
The first argument should be the gluing piece.