Laravel get multiple tables - php

Question

I'm trying to build something like product variants, so far so good. But there is one problem.
I'm getting product and variables as separate json
Example:
[
{
"id": 1,
"panelgameid": 71,
"name": "Counter-Strike 1.6",
"active": 1,
"minslots": 12,
"maxslots": 32,
"slotincreament": 2,
"order": 1,
"gameid": 1,
"location": "Serbia",
"price": 0.6
},
{
"id": 2,
"panelgameid": 71,
"name": "Counter-Strike 1.6",
"active": 1,
"minslots": 12,
"maxslots": 32,
"slotincreament": 2,
"order": 1,
"gameid": 1,
"location": "Germany",
"price": 0.4
}
]
And I have my games and my prices. But I want to show them like this.
[
{
"id": 1,
"panelgameid": 71,
"name": "Counter-Strike 1.6",
"active": 1,
"minslots": 12,
"maxslots": 32,
"slotincreament": 2,
"order": 1,
"gameid": 1,
"prices": [
{
"location": "USA",
"price": 0.6
},
"location": "Germany",
"price": 0.4
]
}
]
This is my current code as CONTROLLER:
$games = DB::table('games')
->join('prices', 'games.id', '=', 'prices.gameid')
->get();
return $games;

Answer 1

Create the Game and Price models by make:model artisan command:
php artisan make:model Game
php artisan make:model Price
You will find them at your project /app folder. There define the relationships.
Game Model
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Game extends Model
{
// define the relationship with the Price model, one game has many prices
public function prices()
{
return $this->hasMany(Price::class, 'gameid'); // you will have to make explicit the foreign key. Looking at the query in your question, I assume that it's gameid
}
}
Price Model
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Price extends Model
{
// define the relationship to the Game model, one price belongs to a Game
public function game()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Game::class, 'gameid');
}
}
Then you can query the games with the prices in your Controller:
$games = Game::with('prices')->get();
You can read more about Eloquent ORM in the docs: Eloquent: Getting Started, and Eloquent: One To Many Relationships.