Delete rows in pivot table in Laravel - php

I have two tables. Table reports
report_id | user_id | item_id
and reports_messages
report_id | user_id | item_id | messages
I want when I delete report_id on reports all related rows which matching report_id in reports_messages to be deleted too.
In my ReportMessages Model I have this relation
public function reports(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Report');
}
public function item(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Item', 'item_id', 'id');
}
In Report model
public function reportedItem(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Item');
}
public function user(){
return $this->hasOne('App\User', 'id', 'user_id');
}
So far I've tried this solution founded here on SO
public function destroy($report_id){
Report::destroy($report_id);
ReportMessages::find(1)->reports()->where('report_id',$report_id)->delete();
return redirect()->route('user.ports');
This deletes only in reports.. doesn't delete related report_id's in pivot table.
}

Laravel has the functions detach and attach to deal with pivot tables.
So you can do this to remove the record in the pivot table:
ReportMessages::find(1)->reports()->detach($report_id);
This will however not remove the row in the reports table because it could still be linked to another object.
Update:
So, I just noticed, you don't have pivot tables, you only have two models that are linked.
You don't have to load the reports() relation in your query to remove the ReportMessages, you can just do it like this:
Report::destroy($report_id);
ReportMessages::where('report_id',$report_id)->delete();
This will remove the report, and all corresponding reportmessages.

I'm know I'm late but the best option with this kind of relationship, it is best to define foreign keys to particular linking tables in your table " reports_messages" like below
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$table->integer('report_id')->unsigned()->index();
$table->foreign('report_id')->references('id')->on('reports')->onDelete('cascade');
$table->integer('message_id')->unsigned()->index();
$table->foreign('message_id')->references('id')->on('messages')->onDelete('cascade');
When you do something like this, the pivot table data will be removed as long as either message or report is deleted from database without a need of detaching methods.
Best option in case message or report has relationship with other data,such that when data is deleted message should be deleted automatically, in this case we do not have to worry about detaching data again

To remove a many-to-many relationship record, use the detach method. The detach method will remove the appropriate record out of the intermediate table; however, both models will remain in the database:
ReportMessages::find(1)->reports()->detach($report_id);
official documentation is here

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One to many relation in pivot table in laravel?

I have pivot table and it has one to many relationship with another table, So I am confused with database design and relationship in Laravel Elequent.
Is this right way to design databse or should I create id as primary key for award_entries and use it is foreign key in entry_files. ?
If I am following existing design (first one), how will I write relation in Laravel eloquent?
Here how your relation will look like. You may need to change model or columns name.
In award_entry model:
public function entry_file() {
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\entry_file','award_entries_award_id');
}
And in Entry_file model:
public function award_entries(){
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\award_entries','award_entries_award_id');
}

Laravel 5 - return only one field from relationship

have a relationship which returns rows from a pivot table.
However I just want to return a collection of the user ids from the table.
If I have it as current:
public function followers()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Follower')->select(array('project_id', 'user_id'));
}
It will return the 2 fields, but if I just have the select with a single field:
public function followers()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Follower')->select( 'user_id');
}
It returns an an empty object.
Any ideas?
I'm guessing this function is in your Project model. When modifying the select on a relationship, you must, at a minimum, select the fields needed to match the records together.
In this case, if this in on your Project model, if you don't select the project_id from the related table, Laravel can't match up the Follower objects with the correct Project objects, since Laravel won't have any idea which Project the Follower belongs to without the foreign key.

Eloquent hasManyThrough also get pivot table record

I have the following relation in my Users model
public function events($user_id)
{
return $this->find($user_id)->hasManyThrough('Event', 'Event_Member', 'user_id', 'id');
}
And the three tables
User
id|name|...
1 |bob |
2 |mike|
Event
id|name |location
1 |meeting|office
Event_Member
user_id|event_id|status
1 |1 |Owner
2 |1 |Guest
The hasManyThrough relationship gives me the information from the Event table, but I also need the status information from the pivot table, how can this be done?
What you have looks like a many-to-many relation rather than a has-many-through one. You have two tables connected through a pivot, not three parent-child-grandchild tables.
I would strongly suggest changing the relationship in both models. In the user model, it would look like this:
public function events()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('Event', 'event_members');
}
Note that a pivot table is typically called model1_model2 in alphabetical order - that is, event_user in this case. I assumed your pivot table is called event_members, if not just change it. Also note that I removed the user_id since the user model already knows which user it's using.
Then you can access pivot data easily, e.g. like this:
foreach ($user->events as $event) {
echo $event->pivot->status;
}

two foreign keys, how to map with laravel eloquent

I have two tables in MySQL, where the first one is called users and the second one is called games. The table structure is as follows.
users
id (primary)
email
password
real_name
games
id (Primary)
user_one_id (foreign)
user_one_score
user_two_id (foreign)
user_two_score
My games table is holding two foreign relations to two users.
My question is how do I make the model relations for this table structure?? - According to the laravel documentation, I should make a function inside the model and bind it with its relations
for instance
public function users()
{
$this->belongsTo('game');
}
however I can't seem to find anything in the documentation telling me how to deal with two foreign keys. like in my table structure above.
I hope you can help me along the way here.
Thank you
A migration:
$table->integer('player1')->unsigned();
$table->foreign('player1')->references('id')->on('users')->onDelete('cascade');
$table->integer('player2')->unsigned();
$table->foreign('player2')->references('id')->on('users')->onDelete('cascade');
And a Model:
public function player1()
{
$this->belongsTo('Game', 'player1');
}
public function player2()
{
$this->belongsTo('Game', 'player2');
}
EDIT
changed 'game' to 'Game' as user deczo suggested.
Unfortunately the way you have this setup is not likely to work in the current context. You may have more luck with the belongsTo method, but again that only supports one relationship.
You could implement a user1() belongsTo, a user2() belongsTo and finally just declare a non eloquent function to return both (something like $users = array($this->user1(), $this->user2())

Using pivot table with Eloquent and Laravel

Here is my problem. I have a table called news and table called categories, also I have a pivot table that connects these two called news_categories.
I am trying to fetch last 10 articles from certain category, but obviously pivot table doesn't have timestapms.
I was reading about hasMany(), belongToMany() but didn't find a good example of how it is done. Any help is appreciated
So far I have done this to News model:
public function categories(){
return $this->has_many_and_belongs_to("Categories")->withPivot('category_id', 'news_id');
}
But I have no idea how to select News based on pivot table value of category_id
You might want to read up on the Laravel 4 Eloquent Documentation a bit...
The relationship function is wrong and you don't need to specify the pivot items. The withTimestamps() function will automatically manage those on the pivot table for you.
public function categories()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('Category')->withTimestamps();
}

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