Select $id from ids field containg $id1,$id2,$id3 - sql

Question

My model in Laravel has a linked_ids string field like this:
echo $model->linked_ids
1,2,3,4,5
I want to make a query that gets me all records with a given id in linked_ids.
Currently I have:
Model::where('linked_ids', 'LIKE', '%' . $model->id . '%');
but this selects me more than I want to (if ex: $model->id is 3 => selects: 1,32,67)\
How can I avoid this since I don't know what position the id will be nor will the ids be ordered? I would like to do this in eloquent but can also use something like DB::raw() to run sql queries.

Answer 1

Bad way to keep your ids but if you really can't change it, you could take advantage of LazyCollections and filter with php.
I'm sure there's a way to do it directly in MySQL (or whatever dbms you're using) but this is what I have.
$id = 3;
Model::cursor()
->filter(function ($model) use ($id) {
return in_array($id, explode(',', $model->linked_ids));
})
// then chain one of these methods
->first(); // returns the first match or null
->collect(); // returns an Illuminate\Support\Collection of the results after the filtering
->all(); // returns an array of Models after the filtering
->toArray(); // returns an array and transforms the models to arrays as well.
->toJson(); // returns a json string
Take notice that this will still do a SELECT * FROM table without any filtering (unless you chain some where methods before cursor() but it won't load any model into memory (which is usually the bottleneck for big queries in Laravel)