laravel8 使用when搜索

//后端 html表单

<form action="{{route('index')}}">
    <input type="text" name="men" placeholder="人数">
    <input type="text" name="abnormal" placeholder="异常人数">
    <input type="text" name="mentwo" placeholder="人数2">
    <input type="date" name="created_at" >
    <input type="date" name="updated_at">
    <input type="submit">
</form>

//接收数据
 public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $men = $request->input('men');
        $abnormal = $request->input('abnormal');
        $mentwo = $request->input('mentwo');
        $created_at = $request->input('created_at');
        $updated_at = $request->input('updated_at');
    //定义空数组
        $append= [];
        $data = Statistics::when($men, function ($query) use ($men, $append) {
                $append[] = ['men', $men];
                return $query->where('men', 'like', "%$men%");
            })
            ->when($abnormal, function ($query) use ($abnormal,$append) {
                $append[] = ['abnormal',$abnormal];
                return $query->where('abnormal', 'like', "%$abnormal%");
            })
            ->when($mentwo, function ($query) use ($mentwo, $append) {
                $append[] = ['$mentwo', $mentwo];
                return $query->where('mentwo', 'like', "%$mentwo%");
            })
            ->when($created_at, function ($query) use ($created_at, $updated_at, $append{
                $append[] = ['created_at', $created_at];
                $append[] = ['updated_at', $updated_at];
                return $query->whereDate('created_at', '>=', "$created_at")
                    ->whereDate('updated_at', '<=', "$updated_at");
            })
            ->get();
        //返回页面
        return view('index.index',compact('data'));
    }