Laravel converting right join to left join - php

Question

I have been trying to convert a right join query to left join query in order to use it inside laravel query builder. Here is my Sql statement and it result wich works flawlessly
select `weekday`.`name`, `open_time`, `close_time`
from `schedule`
join `restaurants_has_schedule` on `schedule`.`id` = `restaurants_has_schedule`.`schedule_id`
and `restaurants_has_schedule`.`restaurants_id` = 1
right join `weekday` on `weekday`.`id` = `schedule`.`weekday_id`
ORDER BY `weekday`.`id`
|------
|name|open_time|close_time
|------
|Domingo|NULL|NULL
|Lunes|NULL|NULL
|Martes|NULL|NULL
|Miercoles|NULL|NULL
|Jueves|14:11:51|14:11:51
|Vienes|09:11:21|17:00:00
|Sábado|NULL|NULL
but when convert It to left join it stop working, displaying me the same data for every single restaurants_id. This is my left join statement.
select `weekday`.`name`, `open_time`, `close_time`
from `weekday`
left join `schedule` on `weekday`.`id` = `schedule`.`weekday_id`
join `restaurants_has_schedule` on `schedule`.`id` = `restaurants_has_schedule`.`schedule_id`
and `restaurants_has_schedule`.`restaurants_id` = 1
ORDER BY `weekday`.`id`
What am I doing wrong? Is There another alternative? Thak you in advance

Answer 1

Try use Laravels Eloquent ORM, which handles relationships really cool! no need anymore to concat or write sql-queries
See here about: Laravels Eloquent ORM & Schema Builder
Or maybe about orm's in general, you should really give it a try:
Object Role Modeling
Object Role Modeling
Example from Laravel doc:
One Post may have many comments
One to many:
class Post extends Eloquent {
public function comments()
{
return $this->hasMany('Comment');
}
}
Where 'Comment' is the model.
The "reverse" to define:
class Comment extends Eloquent {
public function post()
{
return $this->belongsTo('Post');
}
}
Where 'Post' is the model.
And then as query:
$comments = Post::find(1)->comments; //by Primary Key
Or
$comments = Post::where('somefield', '=', 'somevalue')->comments->get();
....Really cool, for many to many see the docs#Laravels Eloquent ORM