Laravel Eloquent WHERE field=(...) subquery

J K :

I have three tables: (Many-To-Many relation between users and wordlists, and userlistrels is connector)

users:
id
name

wordlists:
id
name
creator_id

userlistrels:
id
user_id
wordlist_id

I want to execute following query:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE id=( SELECT wordlists.creator_id FROM userlistrels JOIN wordlists ON wordlists.id=userlistrels.wordlist_id WHERE userlistrels.user_id=$curr_user )

How to write this type of subqueries (WHERE foo= ( subquery )) in Laravel interface?
Documentation covers SELECT * FROM (subquery) WHERE contition,
SELECT * FROM table WHERE (subquery LIMIT 1) = 'foo',
but not SELECT * FROM table WHERE field=(subquery)

I've tried many approaches, and this is the only one that doesn't throw exception, however it doesn't work:

$curr_user = // id of my user
$users = User::where('id', function($query) use($curr_user){
        $query->select('wordlists.creator_id')
            ->from('userlistrels')
            ->join('wordlists', 'wordlists.id', '=', 'userlistrels.wordlist_id')
            ->where('userlistrels.user_id', $curr_user);
    })->get();

Could anyone please tell me what's wrong with this code, or how to make this type of subquery?

EDIT: My SQL query was wrong. Correct query for what i tried to do is: SELECT * FROM users JOIN (SELECT wordlists.creator_id FROM userlistrels JOIN wordlists ON wordlists.id=userlistrels.wordlist_id WHERE userlistrels.user_id=$curr_user) AS nn ON users.id=nn.creator_id;

And correct laravel code:

$users_sub = DB::table('userlistrels')->join('wordlists', 'wordlists.id', '=', 'userlistrels.wordlist_id')->where('userlistrels.user_id', $curr_user)->select('wordlists.creator_id');

        $users = DB::table('users')
            ->joinSub($users_sub, 'tt', function ($join) {
                $join->on('users.id', '=', 'tt.creator_id');
            })->get();

TsaiKoga :

I think the problem comes from your subquery. That subquery will return multiple creator_id depends on your database, so there is two solutions.

Solution 1:

Use whereIn instead of where:

User::whereIn('id', function($query) use($curr_user){
        $query->select('wordlists.creator_id')
            ->from('userlistrels')
            ->join('wordlists', 'wordlists.id', '=', 'userlistrels.wordlist_id')
            ->where('userlistrels.user_id', $curr_user);
    })->get();

Solution 2:

append limit(1) after where('userlistrels.user_id', $curr_user):

User::whereIn('id', function($query) use($curr_user){
        $query->select('wordlists.creator_id')
            ->from('userlistrels')
            ->join('wordlists', 'wordlists.id', '=', 'userlistrels.wordlist_id')
            ->where('userlistrels.user_id', $curr_user)
            ->limit(1);
    })->get();