Laravel query - getting objects and their counts from related table - php

Question

I have table articles and it's related tables comments, views and likes which have a field article_id and in my function I am sending name of the related table, with $request['option'], comments for example, with ajax, to get the top 5 most commented articles. But in my function I am getting from the query result with article_ids and counts and then I am iterating through the results with foreach loop and getting article object with article_id that I am sending in the query. I would like to avoid doing that query for each of the results from the first query. What would be the way to do it more elegantly and without so many calls to DB?
This is my code:
public function mostArticle(Request $request) {
$from = $request['from'];
$to = $request['to'];
$result = DB::table($request['option'])
->select(DB::raw('article_id'), DB::raw('count(*) as count'))
->whereDate('created_at', '>=', date($from).' 00:00:00')
->whereDate('created_at', '<=', date($to).' 00:00:00')
->groupBy('article_id')
->orderBy('count', 'DESC')
->take(5)
->get();
foreach($result as $val){
$article = Article::where('id', $val->article_id)->first();
$mostSomethingArticle[$article->id] = [];
$mostSomethingArticle[$article->id]['title'] = $article->title;
$mostSomethingArticle[$article->id]['summary'] = $article->summary;
$mostSomethingArticle[$article->id]['count'] = $val->count;
}
return json_encode($mostSomethingArticle);
}

Answer 1

You can use relations or joins. But im not sure, if this code is correct:
$result = DB::table($request['option'])
->select('article.id', 'article.title', 'article.summary', DB::raw('count('.$request["option"].'.id) as count'))
->join('article', 'article.id', '=', $request['option']."article_id")
->whereDate('created_at', '>=', date($from).' 00:00:00')
->whereDate('created_at', '<=', date($to).' 00:00:00')
->groupBy('article_id')
->orderBy('count', 'DESC')
->take(5)
->get();
return $result;