How to start a query in Laravel with Eloquent?

Question

I'm trying to write the following code:

foreach($relations as $relation){
    $query->orWhereHas($relation, function ($query) use ($filter) {
        $query->where('name', 'like', '%'.$filter.'%');
    });
}

but I don't know how to initialize the $query variable, I'd prefer not to write the first orWhereHas before the foreach starts. Anyone knows how to achieve this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Eloquent models has query() method. Then, you can do this

$query = App\User::query();