Laravel relation between 5 tables - php

Question

please what is the correct way of getting data from the MN table where one product has assigned multiple combinations of Mark / Model / Year.
E.g. product with ID 1 has following in mmis table:
id | product_id | mark_id | model_id | year_id
178 1 1 1 2
177 1 2 1 3
176 1 3 1 1
other tables are: marks, models, years.
It's completely fine getting all requested data with just:
$items = ProductMmi::where('product_id', $id)
->with(['mark', 'model', 'year'])
->get();
The problem is, that in this way I am not able to sort result based on mark.name ASC, model.name ASC, year.name ASC.
Thank you for any advice.
update:
forgot to add my second try - ordering still in troubles...
$items = ProductMmi::select([
'product_mmis.*',
'marks.*',
'mark_models.*',
'mark_model_years.*'
])
->join('marks', 'product_mmis.mark_id', '=', 'marks.id')
->join('mark_models', 'product_mmis.model_id', '=', 'mark_models.id')
->join('mark_model_years', 'product_mmis.year_id', '=', 'mark_model_years.id')
->where('product_mmis.product_id', $id)
->orderBy('mark', 'asc')
->orderBy('model', 'asc')
->orderBy('year', 'asc')
->get();

Answer 1

you can use this way
$items = ProductMmi::where('product_id', $id)->with(['mark'=>function($query){
$query->orderBy('your_column_name','ASC');
}])->with(['model', 'year'])
->get();
or one thing if you dont want to edit your query then in the model you can do also like this
public function mark()
{
return $this->hasMany(Mark::class)->orderBy('mark','asc');
}

Answer 2

I think the solution was to add orderBy methods between specific joins. E.g. the following case is working completely properly:
$items = ProductMmi::select([
'product_mmis.*',
'marks.*',
'mark_models.*',
'mark_model_years.*'
])
->join('marks', 'product_mmis.mark_id', '=', 'marks.id')
->orderBy('mark', 'asc')
->join('mark_models', 'product_mmis.model_id', '=', 'mark_models.id')
->orderBy('model', 'asc')
->join('mark_model_years', 'product_mmis.year_id', '=', 'mark_model_years.id')
->where('product_mmis.product_id', $id)
->orderBy('year', 'desc')
->get();
Is there a better way to have it done in a more efficient way? Thanks.