use LIKE with array in laravel

I am trying to get a list of registered users that are on the contact list of a user. Since many users save phone numbers without the international prefix so I can’t use whereIn. I am using the last 7 digits of the user’s contact phone numbers to compare with phone numbers of users in the database to return registered users on a user’s contact.

my code looks like this

 public function getUserContact($userNumbers){
      $numbers = array($userNumbers);

  $regUsers = User::where(function($query) use($numbers){
     foreach($numbers as $userNumber){
     $query->orWhere('phone_number', 'LIKE', '%'.$userNumber.'%');
     }
   });
   return $regUsers->get();
  
 }

My $numbers array looks like this

 "data": Array [
"060738,3952483,953333,5953333,3879009"
  ],

but I keep getting an empty array as response. What am I doing wrong

Answer

You’re $numbers variable is an array with one string of comma delimited numbers, you should be exploding them, not wrapping in an array, try this instead:

public function getUserContact($userNumbers) 
{
  $numbers = explode(",", $userNumbers);

  $regUsers = User::where(function($query) use ($numbers) {
     foreach($numbers as $userNumber) {
       $query->orWhere('phone_number', 'LIKE', '%'.$userNumber.'%');
     }
   });

   return $regUsers->get();  
}