Laravel orWhereIn and orWhereIn and so on - mysql

Question

To be honest I rly do not know how to describe my query problem, hope example will clear things up:
I've got simple query:
return $query->whereHas('categories', function ($q) use ($ids) {
$q->whereIn('category_id', $ids);
}, '=', count($ids));
which returns records that match array of categories ids. To present this better right now we've got such condition
getRecordsThatMatchThisCondition(id1 && id2 && id3... and so on).
What I want is to achieve such comparasion
getRecordsThatMatchThisCondition((id1.1 || id1.2 || id1.3) && (id2.1 || id2.2) ... and so on.)
I've couldn't find any help with this problem so far. Even naming such query would be helpfull. My table is simple PIVOT
id record_id category_id
------------------------------------
1 1 35
2 2 41
3 2 74
4 3 74
5 3 40
6 4 40
Summarizing my problem with words:
I do not have record relation to parent_category of selected category... Right now I need to display all records that match multiple categories.
Visualising problem:
Record is assigned to categories like this:
35
└40
└41 ☑
36
└74 ☑
By providing id 35 and 36, record should be found! By providing 40, 74 should NOT be found...
Hope I've described my problem well enough.

Answer 1

You can't query with whereIn method like this, but can use a foreach loop, like this :
return $query->whereHas('categories', function ($q) use ($ids) {
foreach($ids as $key => $value) {
$q->orWhere('category_id', $value)
}
}, '=', count($ids));
Or, with for loop :
return $query->whereHas('categories', function ($q) use ($ids) {
for ($i = 0; $i < count($ids); $i++){
$q->orWhere('category_id', $ids[$i]);
}
}, '=', count($ids));