You should elaborate on the "this doesn't work".

Sorry, I get an:

#ErrorException

#Use of undefined constant MyModelName - assumed 'MyModelName'

It crashes on there line where I put $history = MyModelName;

Normally, I would do this:

#$history = MyModelName::where($ary[0],$ary[1],$ary[2])

but I can't in this circumstance because I don't have any definite knowledge of which of the search params will be coming thru.

Wade

Yep, you need to create a new instance of your model.

Ok, dum dum on my part. I did that, but now I'm not getting valid data yet.

$history = new MyModelName;
$history->where('content','like','%test%');
$history->get();
print_r($history);

Returns a null array. However, if I do this:

print_r(MyModelName::where('content','like','%test%')->get());

I receive a full data set of my two test records.

Wade

@wwendorf

$history->where('content','like','%test%'); // fixed '%test'%

Not sure what you mean. My line was correct.

Anyway, I figured out the problem.

The below line works.

$history = new MyModelName;
$history->where('content','like','%test%');
$tmp = $history->get();
print_r($tmp);

This also works:

$history = new MyModelName;
$history->where('content','like','%test%');
print_r($history->get());

Thanks for the help everyone.

Wade