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laravel eloquent query-scopes PHP

I've been struggling with this for a few days now and could really use some help. I'm working on a Laravel 8 application and have encountered an scenario where the Eloquent query scopes seem to behave unexpectedly when chaining multiple scopes together. I defined a scope to filter active users and another to filter by their role. Here’s the code for my scopes: ```php // User.php (Model) public function scopeActive($query) { return $query->where('active', 1); } public function scopeRole($query, $role) { return $query->where('role', $role); } } ``` When I try to use these scopes like this: ```php $users = User::active()->role('admin')->get(); ``` I expect to receive a collection of active admin users, but the result set includes users who are inactive as well. I checked the SQL generated by these queries using the `toSql()` method and it looks fine: ```sql select * from `users` where `active` = 1 and `role` = 'admin' ``` However, when I run the same SQL directly in my database, it returns the expected results. I also tried clearing the cache with `php artisan cache:clear` and `php artisan config:clear` but that didn’t help. Interestingly, if I run the scopes separately like this: ```php $activeUsers = User::active()->get(); $adminUsers = User::role('admin')->get(); ``` and then manually filter them like: ```php $users = $activeUsers->intersect($adminUsers); ``` I get the correct results. It seems that the scenario lies in how Laravel is combining the scopes. I suspect this might have something to do with how the query builder handles the underlying SQL or maybe with the way Laravel caches the queries. Is there something I'm overlooking in how I use scopes, or is there a known bug in Laravel 8 with Eloquent scopes? Any insights would be appreciated! I've been using Php for about a year now. Any advice would be much appreciated.