The script is tested in Laravel 5.x and 6.x. The static
closure can improve performance in some cases.
Product::select(['id', 'name', 'img', 'safe_name', 'sku', 'productstatusid'])
->whereIn('id', static function ($query) {
$query->select(['product_id'])
->from((new ProductCategory)->getTable())
->whereIn('category_id', [15, 223]);
})
->where('active', 1)
->get();
generates the SQL
SELECT `id`, `name`, `img`, `safe_name`, `sku`, `productstatusid` FROM `products`
WHERE `id` IN (SELECT `product_id` FROM `product_category` WHERE
`category_id` IN (?, ?)) AND `active` = ?