So i tried using multiple conditionals on my join but laravel assumes that on join i will be comparing mysql fields and not a constant value. Do I have to wrap this in a raw() method and then escape it using DB::connection()->getPdo()->quote() or are there any shortcuts to this?

->leftJoin('tags', function($join) use ($tags) {
	$join->on('tags.id', '=', 'resource_tag.tag_id');
	$join->on('tags.name', '=', $tags);
})


->leftJoin('tags', function($join) use ($tags) {
	$join->on('tags.id', '=', 'resource_tag.tag_id');
	$join->on('tags.name', '=', DB::raw(DB::connection()->getPdo()->quote($tags)));
})

This seemed to work but seemed a bit much.