Eloquent join with scopes having ambiguous column names - mysql

Question

I've got two tables, venues and venue_plans, having a hasOne relationship. The former contains geolocation data, while the latter contains a "distance bonus", so the more the distance bonus, the closer the venue will be shown to the user who's searching around its location.
There's also a third table, categories, which has a hasMany relationship. Basically, each venue can have more than one categories set, as simple as that.
I have managed to add to scopes: the first one calculates the distance from a given location (for example, the user location), calculates the distance bonus and sort the venues by both fields:
public function scopeWithDistanceFrom($query, $lat, $lng, $units = 'km') {
$units = ($units === "km") ? 6378.10 : 3963.17;
$lat = (float) $lat;
$lng = (float) $lng;
$lat_column = 'geo_latitude';
$lng_column = 'geo_longitude';
// Join with venue_plans to get the distance bonus
$query->leftJoin('venue_plans', 'venues.id', 'venue_plans.venue_id');
// Add distance column
$distance_raw = "$units * ACOS(
COS(RADIANS($lat)) * COS(RADIANS($lat_column))
* COS(RADIANS($lng) - RADIANS($lng_column))
+ SIN(RADIANS($lat)) * SIN(RADIANS($lat_column))
) AS distance";
$query->selectRaw($distance_raw);
// Add distance_bonused column
$distance_bonused_raw = "(SELECT (distance - (distance / 100 * distance_bonus))) as distance_bonused";
$query->selectRaw($distance_bonused_raw);
// Sort by distance
$query->orderBy('distance_bonused', 'desc');
$query->orderBy('distance', 'desc');
return $query;
}
The second one searches venues by their name (venue.name) or by the category name (categories.name).
public function scopeWithNameOrCategoryName($query, $name) {
return $query
->where('name', 'like', "%{$name}%") // Venue name
->orWhereHas('categories', function($query) use ($name){ // Category name
$query->where('name', 'like', "%{$name}%");
});
}
While they both work fine when used separately, when I use them together, like with
Venue::withNameOrCategory('myname')
->withDistanceFrom(35.0386, 13.92)
->take(5)->get();
I get this error:
SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1052 Column 'name' in where clause is ambiguous (SQL: select `venues`.*, 6378.1 * ACOS(COS(RADIANS(35.0386)) * COS(RADIANS(geo_latitude)) * COS(RADIANS(13.92) - RADIANS(geo_longitude)) + SIN(RADIANS(35.0386)) * SIN(RADIANS(geo_latitude))) AS distance, (SELECT (distance - (distance / 100 * distance_bonus))) as distance_bonused from `venues` left join `venue_plans` on `venues`.`id` = `venue_plans`.`venue_id` where (`name` like %myname% or exists (select * from `categories` inner join `category_venue` on `categories`.`id` = `category_venue`.`category_id` where `venues`.`id` = `category_venue`.`venue_id` and `categories`.`name` like %myname%)) order by `distance_bonused` desc, `distance` desc limit 5)
I should mention that even the venue_plans table has a name column, to store the selected plan name and keep it specific for that venue.
Can somebody explain to me what's the cleanest method to do this? I would also avoid to use table names and joins if possible.
Thanks