Creating new record and relationships in one go - php

Question

I have the following basic schema:
players
id
name
profiles
id
player_id
email
subsets
id
profile_id
alias
I was under the impression the following operation was possible when creating a new record:
Player::create([
'name' => 'Player 1',
'profile.email' => 'player1#email.com',
'profile.subset.alias' => 'Player 1 alias'
]);
Since this code doesn't seem to work, is there anyway to save relationships records together with the create method?

Answer 1

Basically, you can't do this as easy as it looks.
In the docs, all related models are created after the base model is created
$profile = new Profile(array('email' => 'player1#email.com','alias'=>'Player 1 alias'));
$player = new Player(array('name'=>'Player 1'));
$player = $post->profile()->save($profile);
However , if you really want to do it in one go, you can overwrite the save() method in the Player model :
public function save(){
Database::transaction(function() {
$profileModel = new Profile($this->profile);
parent::save();
$this->profile()->insert($profileModel);
});
}
You will then pass the array to the Player method like :
array(
name='Player name',
profile=>array(
email=>'player1#email.com',
subset=>array(
alias=>'Player 1 alias'
)
);
Although this is not a recommended action.
Please read more about how to save the Eloquent models and relationships :
Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2
Everywhere is suggested to create the base model first, then the related models.