Laravel: Issue with relationship? - php

Question

I'm beginning to think why did Laravel implement relationships to their framework, they've never worked for me and their a huge stress to fix when they break. This is the 5th time my relationships are returning null, even when ensuring I've set them up properly?
class UserStats extends Authenticatable
{
protected $table = 'habbo_user_stats';
public $timestamps = false;
protected $guarded = ['id'];
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo(User::class, 'id');
}
}
And
class User extends Authenticatable
{
protected $table = 'habbo_users';
public $timestamps = true;
protected $guarded = ['id'];
public function stats() {
return $this->belongsTo(UserStats::class, 'user_id');
}
}
although, when calling
{{ $user->stats->some_column }}
stats is returning null... $user isn't null.

Answer 1

I think you have to define the owner of the relationship too. Ie:
public function stats() {
// $this->hasMany OR $this->hasOne, depending on your use case.
return $this->hasMany(UserStats::class, 'user_id');
}
We need to know here, does the user have many userstats? or the userstats have many user records? what are you planning to do here?

Answer 2

Here are things I noticed about your code
Your database structure is wrong. (need migrations to verify this)
Extending UserStatus from Authenticable
you have guarded id
Your relationships definitions are not correct.
To confirm we would need to look into the database structure and migrations.
If a userstat have many users and a user belongs to 1 userstat.
the migrations will be
users table will have a user_stat_id and userstats table wont have a user_id
the code will look like this.
UserStatus.php
class UserStats extends Model
{
protected $table = 'habbo_user_stats';
public $timestamps = false;
protected $guarded = ['id'];
public function users()
{
return $this->hasMany(User::class, 'user_stat_id');
}
}
User.php
class User extends Authenticatable
{
protected $table = 'habbo_users';
public $timestamps = true;
protected $guarded = ['id'];
public function stat() {
return $this->belongsTo(UserStats::class, 'user_stat_id');
}
}