Laravel: use Eloquent belongsto , get data from both tables? - php

Question

In Controller, I would like to pass the only one variable with specifies column from parent in it. Now,I'm using
View::make('store.product')->with('products', Product::find($id)
->join('design','product.design_id','=','design.id')
->join('user','design.user_id','=','user.id')
->select('user.name','design.title','product.price')
->get();
My question is
1.Is there a better way to do this by using Belongsto?
2.If can do, Is it work the same with Hasmany?
This is my table structure.
User
id | name
1 | 'John'
Design
id | user_id | title
1 | 1 | 'Chill'
2 | 1 | 'Mad'
Product
id | design_id | price
1 | 1 | 20
2 | 1 | 30
And Model be like this
Product belongsto Design ,
Design belongsto User

Answer 1

Add a method to your Users like so for your designs that the user has;
public function designs(){
$this->hasMany('Design');
}
For the designs model add the following methods;
public function user(){
$this->belongsTo('User');
}
public function products(){
$this->hasMany('Product');
}
For your products model
public function design(){
$this->belongsTo('Design');
}
These will set up the relationship allowing you to eager load the data on your models.
This can be done like so;
$variable = Product::with('designs')->find(1); //This will load the product with the related designs
If you want all the designs and the users that belong to the designs do the following;
$variable = Product::with('designs', 'design.user')->find(1); //This will load the designs that relate to the Product and include the user that that design belongs to on the Design model.
To access the properties use the following;
$variable->designs //This will return a collection of all the designs.
$variable->designs->first()->user //This will return the user model that the design belongs to.
An example of displaying the information;
#foreach ($variable->designs as $design)
{{ $design->user->username }}
#endforeach
Please note: i have not tested this code.