laravel- Eloquent relationship between users, user infos, user addresss, and user contacts - php

Question

I am creating a bunch of models in my laravel project. There are four models, meaning four tables in my database. Namely the models are User, UserInfo,UserAddress,UserContact. The user table is the master table and the structure of the columns are as below:
users -> id , email, password,....other unimportant stuff.
user_info -> id, name, identity num, ......
user_address -> id, user_id, address1, address2,address3, shipping address,....
user_contact-> id, user_id, mobile_num,emergency_num,......
As you can see, the id column is the key identifier to know the entire information for any user. I am trying to define an eloquent relationship between them four and couldn't know if I am correct. This is what I have so far:
User Model:
public function user_info(){
return $this->hasOne('App\Models\UserInfo');
}
public function user_address(){
return $this->hasOne('App\Models\UserAddress');
}
public function user_contact(){
return $this->hasOne('App\Models\UserContact');
}
UserInfo Model:
public function user(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\User');
}
public function user_address(){
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\UserAddress');
}
public function user_contact(){
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\UserContact');
}
UserAddress Model:
public function user(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\User');
}
public function user_info(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\UserInfo');
}
public function user_contact(){
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\UserContact');
}
UserContact Model:
public function user(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\User');
}
public function user_info(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\UserInfo');
}
public function user_address(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\UserAddress');
}
So the question is that I am unsure for example, is user contact the child of user address or the other way round?
Is user contact the child of user info?
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Appreciate it.

Answer 1

Hi just keep all relations in User model and access them through it. In other Model just relation back to User Model. I am your structure modifying little bit, let user add multiple address check box for default shipping address, also multiple contacts if you want you can keep just one contact also.
users -> id , email, password,....other unimportant stuff.
user_info -> id,user_id ,name, identity num, ......
user_address -> id, user_id, address,shipping address,....
user_contact-> id, user_id, mobile_num,emergency_num,......
User Model
public function user_info(){
return $this->hasOne('App\Models\UserInfo');
}
public function user_address(){
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\UserAddress');
}
public function user_contact(){
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\UserContact');
}
in you all other user related models just add this
public function user(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\User');
}
you can access relation through user model
$user_info = UserInfo::with('user')->first();
$user_info->user->user_contact();
if just user Model
$user = User::with(['user_info','user_contact','user_address'])->first();
echo $user->user_info->name;
update
user_id is the foreign key in each table other than user table, if you want to test the relations create User db seed and 4 factories (user, user_address, user_contact, user_info) to fill fake data, after creating models and data in database fetch first User and call its relations, do the same thing for other models fetch first record and call user relation from this model.
this is my UserTableSeeder class run method
public function run()
{
factory(App\User::class, 10)->create()->each(function ($user) {
$user->user_address()->save(factory(App\Models\UserAddress::class)->make());
$user->user_contact()->save(factory(App\Models\UserContact::class)->make());
$user->user_info()->save(factory(App\Models\UserInfo::class)->make());
});
}