How to insert with Eloquant a multi level entry? - php

Question

Let's consider I have Quizzes that can contain Questions which each of them contains some Propositions. Therefore I have three models: Quiz, Question and Proposition. The propositions are linked to the questions through a pivot table that contains: id_question, id_proposition, is_correct.
In a Seeder, I would like to insert a dummy quiz which could be represented in YAML as follow:
title: A Quiz
questions:
- name: Animals
content: What's the difference between a duck?
propositions:
- text: The dog has two legs
is_correct: false
- text: One leg is both the same
is_correct: true
- text: Every duck has at least several teeth
is_correct: false
Traditionally in Laravel you need to split each step such as:
$quiz = new Quiz;
$quiz->name = "A Quiz";
$question = $quiz->questions()->create();
...
Is there a shorter way to hierarchically create a new entry that would look like this:
Quiz::create([
'name' => 'A Quiz'
'questions' => [
Question::Create([
'name' => 'Animals',
'content' => "What's the difference between a duck?"
'propositions' => [
Proposition::Create(['content' => 'The dog has two legs']),
Proposition::Create(['content' => 'One leg is both the same'])
Proposition::Create(['content' => 'Every duck has at least several teeth'])
]
])
]
]

Answer 1

just testing with static values :
$quiz = Quiz::create([
'name' => 'A quiz',
])->questions()->createMany([
['name' => 'animals', 'content' => 'animals content'],
['name' => 'fruits', 'content' => 'fruits content'],
])->map(function($value, $key){
$value->propositions()->createMany([
['content' => 'content 1'],
['content' => 'content 2'],
]);
});
i think you can set the values based on YAML index-values(something like json) with foreach