How to access all table data in many many relationship laravel - php

Question

I have 3 tables.
1.posts
2.categories
3.category_post.
My Posts Tables here :
+------------+------------------+------+-----+---------------------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+------------+------------------+------+-----+---------------------+----------------+
| id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| title | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | |
| slug | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | |
| reporter | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | |
| meta | varchar(255) | NO | | 0 | |
| body | text | NO | | NULL | |
| image | varchar(255) | NO | | 0 | |
| top | tinyint(1) | NO | | 0 | |
| post_count | int(11) | NO | | 0 | |
| created_at | timestamp | NO | | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | |
| updated_at | timestamp | NO | | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | |
+------------+------------------+------+-----+---------------------+----------------+
My Categories Table Here:
+---------------+------------------+------+-----+---------------------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+---------------+------------------+------+-----+---------------------+----------------+
| id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| name | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | |
| category_slug | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | |
| parrent_id | int(11) | NO | | 0 | |
| created_at | timestamp | NO | | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | |
| updated_at | timestamp | NO | | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | |
+---------------+------------------+------+-----+---------------------+----------------+
My category_post table:
+-------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| category_id | int(10) unsigned | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| post_id | int(10) unsigned | NO | MUL | NULL | |
+-------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
I can create post with multiple category selected . But When i want to showing post by category, then i can't access category table . That means, i want to view category name with each post .
Here is my Models:
In Category Model:
public function posts()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('Post');
}
In Post Model:
public function categories()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('Category');
}
My Query Helper function is for Post by category:
public static function cat_post($category, $limit, $top)
{
$posts = Post::whereHas('categories', function($q) use ($category, $top)
{
$q->where('name', 'like', $category);
$q->where('top', 'like', $top);
})->with('categories')->take($limit)->orderBy('created_at', 'DESC')->get();
return $posts;
}
I can view all post data . But category name not .
My Post Loops:
<?php $headline = Helper::head_post(10, 1); ?>
#foreach ($headline as $post)
<li>{{ $post->title }}</li>
#endforeach
when i try this for category name not working:
#foreach ($headline as $post)
<li>{{ $post->categories->name }}</li>
#endforeach
Please help me.

Answer 1

Because it's a many to many relation $post->categories->name will not work. It doesn't know which category (of the many) you want the name of.
So you could for example use $post->categories()->first()->name to get the name of the first category or loop over them to get the name of all categories.