I am trying to run a query in which I find out what positions a person held between two dates. Here is what I have so far:
$startDate = Carbon::parse($start)->toDateString();
$endDate = Carbon::parse($end)->toDateString();
$user = Auth::id();
$Positions = Position::whereBetween('shootDate', array($startDate, $endDate))->where('photographer_id', $user)->orWhere('photoEditor_id', $user)->orWhere('videographer_id', $user)
->orWhere('videoEditor_id', $user)->orWhere('scheduler_id', $user)->orWhere('drone_id', $user)->orWhere('webpage_id', $user)
->orWhere('flyer_id', $user)->orWhere('zillow_id', $user)->get();
I know this isn't going to work because of the orWhere statements basically override the whereBetween command but I don't know how to get around this.
I need to either get the list between the two dates, then see if the user held ANY of those positions, or get All of the positions that the user has, AND THEN only include those between the two dates. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this? Currently, this query returns all of the positions the user held even those outside of the dates.
I understand from your question that you need a query like this
SELECT *
FROM position
WHERE (
photographer_id = $user OR
photoEditor_id = $user OR
videographer_id = $user OR
videoEditor_id = $user OR
scheduler_id = $user OR
drone_id = $user OR
webpage_id = $user OR
flyer_id = $user OR
zillow_id = $user
) AND
shootDate BETWEEN $startDate AND $endDate
I made some test with other tables and you can try something like this
$Positions = Position::where(function($query){
$query->where('photographer_id', $user);
$query->orWhere('photoEditor_id', $user);
$query->orWhere('videographer_id', $user);
$query->orWhere('videoEditor_id', $user);
$query->orWhere('scheduler_id', $user);
$query->orWhere('drone_id', $user);
$query->orWhere('webpage_id', $user);
$query->orWhere('flyer_id', $user);
$query->orWhere('zillow_id', $user);
})
->whereBetween('shootDate', array($startDate, $endDate))
->get();
Hope this can help!
I'll wait your feedback