Change Primary ID in laravel Migration - php

Question

I'm creating a table where I want to use the ID from this table "menu_items" to be added in another table
Table one: menu_items
Schema::create('menu_items', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->id('menu_level_item_id');
$table->timestamps();
$table->string('menu_item_name');
$table->string('menu_item_desc');
Table 2 products
Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->id();
$table->string('product_name');
$table->string('product_desc');
$table->integer('price');
$table->integer('menu_level_item_id');
$table->timestamps();
});
My aim of doing this is that I can then create a relationship between the 2 tables as they have the same key?
Is there a different approach I can take? Should I create a unique key when creating a menu item and then add this to the second table?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Basically Laravel Eloquent do the key handling. When you have two tables which both has as key the name id, this is not a problem. Name the keys in the relation table just like this
table1_id
table2_id
Laravel will handle this in Eloquent. You are also able to name the two columns in the relation table to what ever you want. You could define it for the relation in Eloquent. E.g.
public function otherModel () {
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Models\OtherModel', 'table_name', 'this_model_id', 'other_model_id');
}
Please have a look into:
Laravel Relationship Documentation

Answer 2

Schema::create('menu_items', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->id();
$table->timestamps();
$table->string('menu_item_name');
$table->string('menu_item_desc');
table->timestamp();
});
Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->id();
$table->string('product_name');
$table->string('product_desc');
$table->integer('price');
$table->unsignedBigInteger('menu_level_item_id');
$table->timestamps();
$table->foreign('menu_level_item_id')->references('id')->on('menu_items');
});