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Eloquent Queries 301
In the above example, we would like to retrieve all rows with a title field that starts with three
period characters .... The percentage % sign will let the database know that we don’t care what
value comes after our triple period. As a side note, I know that a triple period is known as an ellipsis,
I just thought this might be easier for readers who don’t have English as a first language.
Let’s take a look at the result from the / URI.
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2 {
3 id: 5,
4 title: "...Anywhere But Here",
5 artist: "The Ataris",
6 genre: "Punk Rock",
7 year: 1997
8 },
9 {
10 id: 6,
11 title: "...Is A Real Boy",
12 artist: "Say Anything",
13 genre: "Indie Rock",
14 year: 2006
15 }
16 ]
We receive a result collection for the albums titled ‘…Anywhere But Here’ and ‘…Is A Real Boy’,
both of which start with a triple period, and are fabulous albums.
We aren’t limited to a single where() method call within a query. We can chain multiple where()
methods together to retrieve rows based on a number of different criteria. Here’s an example.
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