Retrieve and order data from two columns - php

Question

I'm starting to get confused. I have an user model and an event models. A user can create an event, he is the owner. But he can also get invited to an event, he is a guest. The first relation is a OneToMany relation and the other one is a ManyToMany relation.
Now, I would like to retrive all the events of an user, owned or guest. Every events and order them by the field date.
This my user model :
class User extends Authenticatable
{
/**
* Get the events of the user.
*/
public function owned_events()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Event', 'owner_id');
}
/**
* Get the events list.
*/
public function events()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Event')
->using('App\Invitation')
->withPivot('status')
->withTimestamps();
}
}
This is the event model :
class Event extends Model
{
/**
* Get the owner of the event.
*/
public function owner()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
}
/**
* Get the guests list.
*/
public function guests()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\User')
->using('App\Invitation')
->withPivot('status')
->withTimestamps();
}
}
This is what I tried (inside an EventRepository)
/**
* Return all the events (owner and guest) of a user ($id).
*/
public function all($id)
{
$guested = $this->event->guests()->where('user_id', $id)->get()->load('owner', 'guests');
$own = $this->event->where('owner_id', $id)->get()->load('owner', 'guests');
return $guested->merge($own)->sortBy('date');
}
It works... but it gives me only the owned events, not where my user is the guest... I think that there is a much better way to do it. Two calls for one request is pretty bad and two loads is even worse no?

Answer 1

I think I found the solution :
$user = Auth::user()->load('owned_events', 'events'));
$events = $user->events->merge($user->owned_events)->sortBy('date');
return view('events.index', compact('events'));
Go throught the event model was way too hard while go throught the user model is much easier :)