How can I build a condition based query in Laravel

Question

I can do this in Code Igniter:

$this->db->select();
$this->from->('node');
if ($published == true)
{
    $this->db->where('published', 'true');
}
if (isset($year))
{
    $this->db->where('year >', $year);
}
$this->db->get();

How can this code be translated so that it works in Laravel?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

Try this:

$query = DB::table('node');

if ($published == true)
    $query->where('published', '=', 1);

if (isset($year))
    $query->where('year', '>', $year);

$result = $query->get();

Hope it works!!

Thank you!!