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BigJobbies
BigJobbies

Reputation: 4045

Laravel 4 - Writing query using case

I was wondering if someone could tell me how to write the following query using L4's query builder.

SELECT u.user_id,c.c_id,u.username,u.email
 FROM conversation c, users u
 WHERE CASE 
 WHEN c.user_one = '$user_one'
 THEN c.user_two = u.user_id
 WHEN u.user_two = '$user_one'
 THEN c.user_one= u.user_id
 END 
 AND (
 c.user_one ='$user_one'
 OR c.user_two ='$user_one'
 )
 Order by c.c_id DESC

I cant seem to find anything in the L4 doc's about CASE

Cheers,

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1357

Answers (1)

Niklas Modess
Niklas Modess

Reputation: 2539

Laravel 4 does not have support for this using the Query Builder. However you can use the general select function as such

$params = array($user_one, $user_one, $user_one, $user_one);
$results = DB::select(
    "SELECT u.user_id, c.c_id, u.username, u.email
    FROM conversation c, users u
    WHERE 
        CASE 
            WHEN c.user_one = ?
            THEN c.user_two = u.user_id
            WHEN u.user_two = ?
            THEN c.user_one = u.user_id
        END 
        AND (
            c.user_one = ?
            OR c.user_two = ?
        )
    ORDER BY c.c_id DESC",
    $params
);

You can read more about this on Laravels database documentation.

Upvotes: 1

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