Laravel query with where and where - sql

Question

I've trying to basically do two SQL requests into one laravel array.
These are my SQL
SELECT * FROM `transactions` WHERE `plan` LIKE '1050' ORDER BY `updated_at` DESC
SELECT * FROM `transactions` WHERE `user` LIKE '1050' ORDER BY `updated_at` DESC
I want to have all transaction that have "plan" == "1050" AND all transactions that have "user" == "1050" in one variable.
This is not working for me:
$ct=transactions::where('user',$user->id)
->orWhere('plan', $user->id)
->orderby('created_at',"asc")->get();

Answer 1

The context agnostic way to combine the results of two union compatible queries (such as yours) would be:
$result = transactions::where('plan', 'LIKE', $user->id)->orderBy('updated_at', 'DESC')
->union(
transactions::where('user', 'LIKE', $user->id)
->orderBy('updated_at', 'DESC')
)
->get();
This of course means that the results are ordered by plan then user. You can sort them by updated_at globally using the below function on the result:
$result = $result->sortBy('updated_at', 'DESC');
There's also a way to do it on the query level but I don't see much benefit since you're getting all the data anyway.
The above query should be functionally equivalent to:
$result = transactions::orWhere('plan', 'LIKE', $user->id)
->orWhere('user', 'LIKE', $user->id)
->orderBy('updated_at', 'DESC')
->get();
This will have the same results but in a different order than the union.