Laravel relationship design - php

Question

I'm working on team management project.
I have a problem with doing relationships.
I want to display users in boards, but also want to look good and easy to read. I already designed relationships but when I saw JSON output of relationships, it was completely messed.
Is there some way how to display relationship data this way?
{
"id": 1,
"name: "Test",
"members": [
{
... user model here
"name": "Peter",
"email": "peter#peter.com",
}
]
}
My migrations:
Boards migration
<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreateBoardsTable extends Migration
{
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* #return void
*/
public function up()
{
Schema::create('boards', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*
* #return void
*/
public function down()
{
Schema::dropIfExists('boards');
}
}
Membership migration
<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreateMembershipsTable extends Migration
{
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* #return void
*/
public function up()
{
Schema::create('memberships', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->integer('board_id')->unsigned();
$table->integer('user_id')->unsigned();
$table->timestamps();
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*
* #return void
*/
public function down()
{
Schema::dropIfExists('memberships');
}
}
EDIT:
Models
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Board extends Model
{
protected $fillable = ['name'];
public function members() {
return $this->hasMany(Membership::class)->with('user');
}
}
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Membership extends Model
{
protected $fillable = ['board_id', 'user_id'];
protected $hidden = ['created_at', 'updated_at'];
public function user() {
return $this->hasOne(User::class, 'id', 'user_id');
}
}

Answer 1

You can try to define the relationships in the models as a Many to Many one, i.e.:
class User
{
public function boards()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Board', 'memberships', 'user_id', 'board_id');
}
}
class Board
{
public function members()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\User', 'memberships', 'board_id', 'user_id');
}
}
With that relations defined you don't really need a Membership Model if it has not additional fields, and you can write code like that:
User::find($id)->boards
Board::find($id)->members
Board::with('members')->find($id)
You could read also the documentation on Many to Many Relationships