Found this was answered on stack overflow,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27632236/laravel-eloquent-orwhere-query

for reference and searching,

Damien Pirsy:

You could do in three ways. Assume you've an array in the form

['myselect' => [11, 15, 17, 19], 'otherfield' => 'test', '_token' => 'jahduwlsbw91ihp'] which could be a dump of \Input::all();

       Project::where(function ($query) {
          foreach(\Input::get('myselect') as $select) {
             $query->orWhere('id', '=', $select);
          }
       })->get();

       Project::whereIn('id', \Input::get('myselect'))->get();

       $sql = \DB::table('projects');
       foreach (\Input::get('myselect') as $select) {
           $sql->orWhere('id', '=', $select);
       }
       $result = $sql->get();