Laravel Eloquent get Clients which have active jobs - php

Question

I'm working on a table which should show clients which have active jobs. I've got a page with all clients and this is working. I'm trying to get a query which is conditional on the client having active jobs. So here is what I have in my dataSource function:
public function dataSourcejobs(Request $request) {
$search = $request->query('search', array('value' => '', 'regex' => false));
$draw = $request->query('draw', 0);
$start = $request->query('start', 0);
$length = $request->query('length', 25);
$order = $request->query('order', array(0, 'desc'));
$filter = $search['value'];
$sortColumns = array(
0 => 'id',
1 => 'client',
2 => 'active_jobs',
3 => 'is_enabled',
4 => 'actions'
);
$query = Client::select( 'clients.*' );
if (!empty($filter)) {
$query->where( 'title', 'like', '%'.$filter.'%' );
}
$recordsTotal = $query->count();
$sortColumnName = $sortColumns[$order[0]['column']];
$query->orderBy($sortColumnName, $order[0]['dir'])
->take($length)
->skip($start);
$json = array(
'draw' => $draw,
'recordsTotal' => $recordsTotal,
'recordsFiltered' => $recordsTotal,
'data' => [],
);
$clients = $query->get();
foreach ($clients as $client) {
// Get active jobs for this client.
$jobs = Job::where( 'client_id', $client->id )->where('is_active', 1)->get();
$json['data'][] = [
$client->id,
$client->title,
'<button class="jobs">' . count($jobs) . ' Jobs</button>',
( $client->is_enabled === 1 ) ? 'Yes' : 'No',
'' . config( 'ecl.EDIT' ) . ' ' . config( 'ecl.WORK' ) . ''
];
}
return $json;
}
I've tried to do things like $query = Client::select( 'clients.*' )->count($client->jobs); but this is obviously wrong and errors. I also tried to do this in the loop (by checking the count) but this obvoiusly broke how the pagination works (but did show only clients with active jobs)
I should point out that the function above shown all clients even the ones which have no associated active jobs.
thanks

Answer 1

to get the count along with each client you can use withCount refer to this link https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/eloquent-relationships#counting-related-models
like the following
$query = Client::withCount('jobs');
as for getting the clients who only have jobs you can use whereHas