Laravel Eloquent inner join with multiple conditions
Stefan Izdrail
Founder & Senior Architect · 2026-06-29
Title: Effectively Handling Inner Joins with Multiple Conditions in Laravel Eloquent
Introduction:
Handling inner joins in Laravel applications can sometimes be challenging, especially when you need to add multiple conditions alongside the join. This blog post aims to provide a comprehensive explanation of how to achieve this using Eloquent models and how to ensure that your code runs smoothly without any errors or unexpected results.
Inner Joins:
An inner join combines rows from two tables based on matching values in certain columns. In Laravel, you can implement an inner join by using the join() method and specifying the necessary conditions. The method expects a closure that contains the inner join logic.
Code Example:
Consider this scenario where we want to get all feeds related to active shops. We will use the code snippet provided in the question as our starting point:
public function scopeShops($query) {
return $query->join('kg_shops', function($join) {
$join->on('kg_shops.id', '=', 'kg_feeds.shop_id');
// EDITED ON 28-04-2014
$join->on('kg_shops.active', '=', DB::raw("1"));
});
}
1 as a column name instead of a string. To fix this issue, you must ensure that you enclose the constant 1 within single quotes ('1') or use DB::raw() to treat it as a raw expression. This will help prevent confusion and guarantee successful execution of your inner join query:
public function scopeShops($query) {
return $query->join('kg_shops', function($join) {
$join->on('kg_shops.id', '=', 'kg_feeds.shop_id');
// EDITED ON 28-04-2014
$join->on('kg_shops.active', '=', DB::raw("'1'"));
});
}