How do I get rows based on another table with Eloquent? - php

Question

I have one table with profiles. In this table there is no way to know what user have access to each row.
CREATE TABLE `rw_profiles` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`name` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`created_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`updated_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
)
Then I have another table to link each user with a profile. This table can contain same profile_id but different user_id (many users can access same profile).
CREATE TABLE `rw_profile_access` (
`profile_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
`user_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
`created_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`updated_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
UNIQUE KEY `profile_access_profile_id_owner_unique` (`profile_id`,`owner`),
KEY `profile_access_user_id_foreign` (`user_id`),
CONSTRAINT `profile_access_profile_id_foreign` FOREIGN KEY (`profile_id`) REFERENCES `rw_profiles` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
CONSTRAINT `profile_access_user_id_foreign` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`) REFERENCES `rw_users` (`id`)
)
How do I list all profiles that a user has access too? Are you supposed to use the with-method?
Something like $profiles = Profile::with('...')->get();?
Update
As of now I'm joining the table.
$profiles = Profile::join('profile_access', function($query) use ($user) {
$query
->on('profile_id', '=', 'profiles.id')
->on('user_id', '=', DB::raw($user['id']));
})->get(['profiles.*']);
That works. Is this the only way or can I do it without join?

Answer 1

You need to define the many-to-many relationship in your User and Profile models. They need methods like:
class User {
public function Profiles()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('Profile', 'rw_profile_access', 'user_id', 'profile_id');
}
}
class Profile {
public function Users()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('User', 'rw_profile_access', 'profile_id', 'user_id');
}
}
The parameters for Profiles() and Users() correspond to:
Related model
Pivot table
Foreign key
Foreign key
You can then query like this:
$users_with_their_profiles = User::with('profiles')->get();
$users_that_definitely_have_profiles = User::with('profiles')->has('profiles')->get();
The Laravel documentation explains this thoroughly at http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#relationships.

Answer 2

You can use many to many relationship.
Laravel table relationship
http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#working-with-pivot-tables
OR:
Assume you have ProfileAccess model.
$profiles = ProfileAccess::with('profile')
->where('user_id', $user['id'] )
->get();
foreach($profiles as $profile) {
dd($profile->profile->name);
}