Take last 3 records from child. Php/Laravel - php

Question

Help me please.
I'm trying to write a function where I get all the categories of my forum with the 3 most recently updated Topics in the given categories.
But according to the result, take(3) filters by id (where the id is not higher than 3), and I need to get the last 3 records.
public function index()
{
$forums = Category::with(['posts' => function ($q){
return $q->take(3)->get();
}])->get();
dd($forums);
}

Answer 1

you should order your complete query by update_at descending, only after you can take the first 3.
$q->orderBy('update_at', 'desc')->take(3)->get();
Your Categories table seems to be a different table from posts, so when a post is created or updated you should also set update_at of its category to now.

Answer 2

As far as I know you can not use take() or limit() inside with();
EDIT: solution that was selected by mr.Sardov is to use package staudenmeir/eloquent-eager-limit.
Link is provided below this answer.
So for you need to do is by limit it from model relationship.
For example:
class Category extends Model {
public function posts()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Post');
}
public function limitPosts()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Post')
->limit(3);
}
public function limitLatestPosts()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Post')
->orderBy('created_at', 'desc'). // or use ->latest()
->limit(3);
}
}
And that use it like this:
Category::query()
->with(['limitPosts' => function($query) {
$query->orderBy('created_at', 'desc'); // the last records
}])
->where('id', '<=', 3) // id not higher than 3
->get();
Or
Category::query()
->with('limitLatestPosts')
->where('id', '<=', 3) // id not higher than 3
->get();
Hope this can help you out.