Laravel 10: How to dynamically filter a relationship based on user input in Eloquent?
I'm trying to implement I tried several approaches but none seem to work... I'm working on a Laravel 10 application where I need to dynamically filter a relationship based on user input from an HTTP request. I have a `User` model that has many `Posts`, and I want to filter the posts based on a status that the user selects from a dropdown. For example, my dropdown has options like 'published', 'draft', and 'archived'. I want to adjust the query to only return posts that match the selected status. Here's what I have so far: ```php public function index(Request $request) { $status = $request->input('status'); $posts = User::with(['posts' => function($query) use ($status) { if ($status) { $query->where('status', $status); } }])->get(); return view('user.posts', compact('posts')); } ``` However, I'm finding that if the `status` is not selected, I end up with no posts at all, which isn't the desired behavior. I expected that if no status is provided, it should simply return all posts for that user. I've tried checking if the `$status` variable is null before applying the filter, but it doesn't seem to help. Here's the adjusted snippet that I thought would work: ```php public function index(Request $request) { $status = $request->input('status'); $posts = User::with(['posts' => function($query) use ($status) { if (!is_null($status) && $status !== '') { $query->where('status', $status); } }])->get(); return view('user.posts', compact('posts')); } ``` Despite this, I'm still facing an issue where it returns no results if `status` is not set at all. Is there a better way to handle this dynamic filtering to ensure all posts are returned when no filter is applied? Any help would be greatly appreciated! For context: I'm using Php on Windows. Any help would be greatly appreciated! For context: I'm using Php on Linux. What's the best practice here? Any advice would be much appreciated.