Laravel 5 using pivot table with hasMany relationship - php

Question

I'm making a poll system and I have two tables :
polls table : Has those fields (id,question,created_at,updated_at).
choices table : Has those fields (id,poll_id,choice).
And a pivot table named choice_poll : Has those fields (id,choice_id,poll_id,ip,name,phone, comment ,created_at,updated_at)
Poll Model :
class Poll extends Model
{
protected $table = 'polls';
protected $fillable = ['question'];
public $timestamps = true;
public function choices()
{
return $this->BelongsToMany('App\Choice')->withPivot('ip','name','phone','comment');
}
}
Choice Model :
class Choice extends Model
{
protected $table = 'choices';
protected $fillable = ['poll_id','choice'];
public $timestamps = false;
public function poll()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Poll')->withPivot('ip','name','phone','comment');
}
}
Now when I try to build this query it doesn't return the choices :
$poll->first()->choices()->get()
PS: There is many choices in the choices table associated with the first poll.

Answer 1

In this case you have Many To Many relationship so try to change belongsTo in :
public function poll()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Poll')->withPivot('ip','name','phone','comment');
}
To belongsToMany, and it will be :
public function poll()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Poll')->withPivot('ip','name','phone','comment');
}
NOTE 1: You have to change BelongsToMany to belongsToMany note the B should be in lower case.
NOTE 2: You want the pivot table with timestapms create_at,updated_at as you mentioned in th OP so you have to use withTimestamps(); :
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Poll')
->withPivot('ip','name','phone','comment')
->withTimestamps();
//AND in the other side also
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Choice')
->withPivot('ip','name','phone','comment')
->withTimestamps();
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

This:
public function poll()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Poll')->withPivot('ip','name','phone','comment');
}
and
public function choices()
{
return $this->BelongsToMany('App\Choice')->withPivot('ip','name','phone','comment');
}
should be:
public function poll()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Poll')->withPivot('ip','name','phone','comment');
}
and
public function choices()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Choice')->withPivot('ip','name','phone','comment');
}