Following the instructions in this laracast :
https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-5-fundamentals/episodes/21
I created a Channel model
class Channel extends Model
{
//
protected $fillable = [
'title',
'description',
'published_at',
];
public function scopePublished($query) {
$query->where('published_at', '<=', Carbon::now());
}
public function setPublishedAtAttribute($date) {
$this->attributes['published_at'] = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $date);
}
/*
* Get the tags associated with the given Channel
*
*/
public function tags() {
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Tag'); //tag_id
}
}
and a Tag model
class Tag extends Model
{
//
protected $fillable = [
'name', 'description',
];
/**
* Get the channels associated with the given tag
*/
public function channels() {
return $this->belongToMany('App\Channel'); //channel_id
}
}
so there's a many-to-many relation betweeen Channel and Tag through the pivot table.
My migrations look as follows
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreateChannelsTable extends Migration
{
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function up()
{
Schema::create('channels', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('title');
$table->text('description');
$table->text('url');
$table->text('channelposter');
$table->timestamp('published_at');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function down()
{
Schema::drop('channels');
}
}
and
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreateTagsTable extends Migration
{
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function up()
{
Schema::create('tags', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->string('description');
$table->timestamps();
});
//channel_tag
Schema::create('channel_tag', function(Blueprint $table) {
$table->integer('channel_id')->unsigned()->index();
$table->foreign('channel_id')->references('id')->on('channels')->onDelete('cascade');
$table->integer('tag_id')->unsigned()->index();
$table->foreign('tag_id')->references('id')->on('tags')->onDelete('cascade');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function down()
{
Schema::drop('tags');
Schema::drop('channel_tag');
}
}
However, when I use artisan tinker to connect a channel to a tag as follows :
==> php artisan tinker
Psy Shell v0.6.1 (PHP 5.6.16 — cli) by Justin Hileman
>>> $channel=App\Channel::first();
=> App\Channel {#660
id: 1,
title: "Test1",
description: "Test1",
url: "",
channelposter: "",
published_at: "2016-01-06 02:54:20",
created_at: "2016-01-06 02:54:20",
updated_at: "2016-01-06 02:54:20",
}
>>> $tag = new App\Tag;
=> App\Tag {#649}
>>> $tag->name = "Recommended";
=> "Recommended"
>>> $tag->description = "Recommended";
=> "Recommended"
>>> $tag->save();
=> true
>>> DB::select('SELECT * FROM channel_tag');
=> []
>>> $channel->tags()->attach(1);
=> null
>>> DB::select('SELECT * FROM channel_tag');
=> [
{#658
+"channel_id": 1,
+"tag_id": 1,
+"created_at": "2016-01-05 21:56:46",
+"updated_at": "0000-00-00 00:00:00",
},
]
>>> $tag->channels->toArray();
BadMethodCallException with message 'Call to undefined method Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder::belongToMany()'
This is not making sense and it feels like it might be a bug but I'm not sure. I'm using Laravel Framework version 5.2.6 and PHP 5.6.16