Use a scope in a JOIN in Laravel Eloquent - php

Question

I am trying to get all the products with active prices and display them and the active price using a scope in the ProductPrices Model. My Products Model has an hasMany relation with prices:
Product.php (Model)
public function prices () {
return $this->hasMany(ProductsPrice::class);
}
My Prices Model has an scope is active that checks if the prices is active on this date:
ProductsPrices.php (Model)
public function scopeIsActive($query)
{
return $query->whereRaw(' timestampdiff(second, start_time, NOW()) >= 0')
->where(function ($query) {
$query->whereRaw(' timestampdiff(second, end_time, NOW()) <= 0')
->orWhereNull('end_time');
});
}
I tried many different ways to get products with an active price and display them both. Things I feel should work, but don't, are:
Route::get('/test', function (Request $request) {
return Product::join('products_prices', 'products.id', 'products_prices.product_id')
->prices->isActive()
->where('products.is_active', true)
->get();
});
I get the error:
Property [prices] does not exist on the Eloquent builder instance.
or test2
Route::get('/test2', function (Request $request) {
$prices = DB::table('products_prices')->select('id');
$product = Product::whereIn('id', $prices)->get();
return $product->prices()->isActive()->get();
});
I get the error:
Method Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection::prices does not exist.
Why can't I access the ->prices() on my Product Model? Should I not use eloquent for this and go for the Query Builder of Laravel?

Answer 1

I think a combination of with and whereHas might work:
$products = Product::with(['prices' => function($query) {
$query->isActive(); // to fetch prices relation that is active
}])->whereHas('prices', function($query) {
$query->isActive(); // this one is to filter the products that has active price
})->get();