Laravel Relationship 1-2-1 - php

Question

I've a tables what looks that:
Users:
id | username | password | ...
Users_Services
id | user_id | service_id | active | paidTo
And Services:
id | title | description | type | price | active
I want get services of current user with all data about it from another table, so my relationship should looks:
I don't know how can I do that on "User_Services" class, in Controller I've:
$services = User::find( Auth::user()->id )->services;
User class:
public function services() {
return $this->hasMany('User_Services');
}
And Services class:
public function user_services()
{
return $this->hasManyThrough('User_Services', 'User', 'service_id');
}
Now how about User_Services class, how can I do that relationship?

Answer 1

From User class you can declare both relationships.
Edit: I got confused by the arrows: If the relation is 1-N_1-N
class User extends Eloquent {
public function services()
{
return $this->hasManyThrough('Services', 'Users_services');
}
public function usersServices()
{
return $this->hasMany('Users_services');
}
}
If it is many to many 1-N_N-1
class User extends Eloquent {
public function services()
{
return $this->belognsToMany('Services', 'Users_services');
}
}
class Services extends Eloquent {
public function services()
{
return $this->belognsToMany('Users', 'Users_services');
}
}

Answer 2

I believe you are actually looking for a many-to-many relationship which in Laravel is going to be defined with the belongsToMany() function. You can set those up like so...
class User extends Eloquent {
public function services()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('Service')->withPivot('active', 'paidTo');
}
}
class Service extends Eloquent {
public function users()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('User');
}
}
The withPivot() part is grabbing those additional columns you have on your User_services table.
Now getting a user's services should be very easy and can be done like so...
$services = Auth::user()->with('services');
foreach($services as $service) {
echo $service->description;
// If you need to display information from the pivot table, that can be done like so.
echo $service->pivot->paidTo;
}