Database Structure:
-Users Table
-user_id
-name
-...
-Follow Table
-user_id
-follow_id
so when user follow another it will be inserted in follow table
and when get user followers
$user = User::where('user_id',$id)->first();
$user['followers'] = $user->Followers;
$user['following'] = $user->Following;
return $user;
By This Relation in User Model Side
public function Followers()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Follow','follow_id','user_id');
}
And By This Relation in Follow Model Side
public function getUserData()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\User','user_id','user_id');
}
It Works Fine for me and it gaves me every id But the problem is
that i want to get information about every user returned from this relation
so i should call User Model for each user returned to get his information
or what ??
The way you have you many-to-many relationship set up is almost right.
Firstly, change the Followers() method to be followers() as Laravel follows the PSR-2 standard.
Secondly, this isn't essential but change the user_id column in the users table to be just id. This is a laravel convension that does not need to be followed, however, at this point I don't see any reason not to follow it. I am assuming that you have something like:
protected $primaryKey = 'user_id';
in your User model. If you change your user_id column to id you won't have to have the above declaration anymore.
(If you don't have that line in and you want to continue using user_id as the primary key you WILL have to add that line to your User model.
Thirdly, change the relationship type in followers() to be:
public function followers()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\User', 'follower', 'user_id', 'follow_id');
//follower is the table name, user_id is column that relates to the current model and follow_id is the column that is for the relationships
}
With all of the above done you can now get a user with all of their followers by doing:
$user = User::with('followers')->find($id);
This will allow you to get the followers by simply doing:
$user->followers
At this point you can not get rid of you Follow model as you generally wont need a model for a pivot table.
To get the following relationship just add:
public function following()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\User', 'follower', 'follow_id', 'user');
}
to your User model.
Again to access this you can either:
$user = User::with('following')->find($id);
or if you have already have the user model and the relationship isn't loaded you can:
$user->load('following'); //in this case following is the name of the method where you have declared the relationship.
For more information please refer to the documentation http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent-relationships#many-to-many and http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent
Hope this helps!
Related
I'm confused on how to get my model setup in laravel with a table that is connected to a pivot table.
Here's the problem
Say I have
Locations
id
name
area_types
id
name
area_type_location (Pivot table)
id
location_id
area_type_id
area_test
id
area_type_location_id
clean
headCount
Relationship between the tables are different areas type belongs to different locations.
i.e: beach, 25m pools, kids pools, bbq, etc
area_test is connected to the pivot table because the test has to be generated from area that exists, in this case it is area that is registered under different locations. Thus it has to be tested daily, measured, etc.
I understand the structure between area_types and locations for many to many relationship, however I can't get over my head of how do i structure my area_test model? How do I get the data from locations table -> where are my test?
Should I create a model for my pivot table? Is that a good practice in laravel?
Does anyone has the same use case?
I read about eloquent has many through
relationship but I understand that it does not mention about getting through pivot table. I don't quite get if my use case is the same.
Thanks
Finally, apparently there are a couple of way to get data from locations table to area_tests
Tried at tinker and it works,
First Option
I need to create a Pivot model for my Pivot table:
class LocationAreaType extends Pivot{
public function location(){
return $this->belongsTo(Location::class);
}
public function areaType(){
return $this->belongsTo(AreaType::class);
}
public function AreaTests(){
return $this->hasMany(AreaTest::class, 'area_type_location_id');
}
}
I can use hasManyThrough relation that I need to create in my Location table
public function areaTests()
{
return $this->hasManyThrough(
AreaTest::class,
LocationAreaType::class,
'location_id',
'area_type_location_id');
}
this way I can get the areaTests easily by $location->areaTests, My problem was not determining the area_type_location_id as foreign. You need to determine this, apparently when I extends pivot and use hasMany laravel does not auto recognise the Foreign key by itself.
Second option
Another way to access it is from the relation table, I can define withPivot in the areaTypes() relation then access it like this:
$location->areaType[0]->pivot->areaTests
Since laravel only recognise foreign key from both tables location_id and area_type_id, I have to include the id of the pivot table to get the AreaTest table data
So in the Location model I have to get the column
public function areaTypes()
{
// Get the ID of the pivot table to get the poolTests table (connected with ID column)
return $this->belongsToMany(AreaType::class)
->using(AreaTypeLocation::class)
->withPivot('id');
}
There is no need to create a new model for pivot table.
Just declare in Location model below code:
/**
* #return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\BelongsToMany
*/
public function area_types()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\AreaType', 'area_type_location', 'location_id', 'area_type_id');
}
and declare below code in AreaType model:
/**
* #return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\BelongsToMany
*/
public function locations()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Location', 'area_type_location', 'area_type_id', 'location_id');
}
every time you need to get for example the locations of an area_type in every controller, you can call the function like this: $areatype->locations()->get();
Don't forget to create area_type_location table migration.
I can't figure out how to make aliases for my table column names such that I can use Laravel's Eloquent belongsTo() functionality.
I have a groups table and and an activities table. The activities table references the groups table by organization_id rather than groups_id.
How do I write belongsTo in my Activity model as the following doesn't work.
public function group()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Group', 'organization_id');
}
What I'd like to write is:
App\Activity->group
In the code you have pasted laravel will think that the organization id is the column in your activities table which your are using as foreign key what you should do is :
public function group()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Group', 'organization_id', 'id');
}
in the above code you will get all results where activies.id = groups.organization_id;
UPDATE by Tim Peterson
My original code works. I migrated my DB for something else so that must have fixed everything.
I have 3 models: User, Campagin, CampaginType
User has many Campagin
Campagin belongs to CampaginType
(User does not related with CampaginType)
When I save a campaign (contains user_id and campaign_type_id field), how can I save 2 fields with a single command.
I try like:
$user->campaigns()->campaignType($campaignType)->create($campaignInfo);
But It not work! :(
public function store(Request $request)
{
Campaign::create($request->all());
$campaign = Campaign::where('unique_field', '=', $request->uniquefield)->first();
$campaign->users()->attach($request->user_id);
$campaign->campaign_type()->attach($request->campaign_type_id);
return redirect('your_destination_view');
}
Note
uniquefield is something that is unique to your campaign database table. You should also modify the models by adding the respective methods to make the eloquent relationship.
I have a one to one relationship I am trying to get to work in laravel.
I have a user and an alert table I am trying to use.
Primarykey of User table is id and another id in there is called id_custom.
In the Alerts table I have id_custom as the primary key.
Here is the relationship in the users model:
public function alerts()
{
return $this->hasOne('Alerts', 'id_custom');
}
Here is the alerts model:
alerts->profit` (where `profit` is a column in the `Alerts` table.
What am I doing wrong?
Your hasOne method is currently looking for user_id in your alerts table. You need to explicitly set the foreign and local key you're looking for.
return $this->hasOne('Model', 'foreign_key', 'local_key');
Source
In your instance if would be
return $this->hasOne('Alerts', 'id_custom', 'id');
You would make things much tidier for yourself if you changed the User attribute id_custom to alert_id.
Then you could change the method in your User.php model to alert and do:
public function alert()
{
return $this->hasOne('Alerts');
}
I'm working on a project that has a many to many relationship between User and Club. This relationship works and I can get the respective objects with: $user->clubs. The pivot table I've named memberships. I can get the pivot data with $club->pivot. Foreign keys are defined for the memberships table in migrations.
However, I'd like the pivot table to be represented by a model so that I can easily update attributes of Membership such as role (Or even add a Role model to Membership!) or status.
I've looked at "Defining A Custom Pivot Model" in the docs, but what it says doesn't work for me, I get:
ErrorException
Argument 1 passed to Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::__construct() must be of the type array, object given
I've also looked at this description of how to do it, but it's more or less the same as above.
Membership model:
class Membership extends Eloquent {
protected $table = 'memberships';
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('User');
}
public function club()
{
return $this->belongsTo('Club');
}
}
Has anyone done this before?
This has been solved by a suggestion by a reddit user to extend Pivot in my Membership model. I also had to add ->withPivot('status', 'role')->withTimestamps() to the relationship declarations in the User and Club models.
You can do this by adding some manual code.
Your Membership model looks ok. You can get all clubs of a $user easily if you define method $user->clubs() where you get all the clubs manually.
clubs() {
$memberships=$this->memberships;
$clubs=new \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection();
foreach($memberships as $m) {
$clubs=$clubs->merge($m->clubs);
}
return $clubs;
}