php - Laravel Search Controller

Question

I am trying to make Laravel Search and stuck at point of handling POST data as an array in Eloquent way

HTML Form is as

<form>
    <select name="hidArray[]">
       <option name="test">Test</option>
       <option name="test2">Test2</option>
    </select>
</form>

Now, this input has been initialized as Bootstrap Multiselect

When i get input as POST request then it has been represented as an array like as below and which is expetced

array:2 [▼
0 => "test"
1 => "test2"
]

Now, i want to form Eloquent query to get results from database.

I tried like as below:

if($request->has('hidArray')){
      $profile->whereIn('hidArray', $request->input('hidArray'));
}

But i think, this way it is not working. Is there any other way i can perform this operation?

Answer 1

I don't have exact idea what are you upto but according to what I understood.

You are trying to do something like:

$profile = ModelName::where('user_id',$id);

if($request->has('hidArray')){
      $profile = $profile->whereIn('hidArray', $request->input('hidArray'));
}

$profile = $profile->get();