I have an issue understanding pretty well the Relationships, let's go to the point
I have 3 tables, with its proper models
receipt
- id
- date
items_sold
- id
- receipt_id
- item_id
items
- id
- name
The problem I have is that receipt "has many" items through items_sold, but I can't use "hasManyThrough" because eloquent use the wrong "id" of "items_sold", even if I put manually the keys
class Receipt extends Eloquent {
public function items()
{
return $this->hasManyThrough('Items', 'ItemsSold', 'receipt_id', 'id');
}
}
There is no way to do it in through this way, but I can find an Relationship method with eloquent that can help me with this case
As lukasgeiter stated, a belongsToMany() relationship added to your models would allow you to access the related data.
Something else to note, if you change your join table's name to item_reciept you can define the many to many relationship in your models without having to specify the join table specifically. When Laravel sees a belongsToMany method without a join table name specified, it looks for the name of the two models involved in snake case and alphabetical order with lower case names.
Your model methods would be:
class Receipt extends Eloquent{
public function items(){
return $this->belongsToMany('Item');
}
}
class Item extends Eloquent{
public function reciepts(){
return $this->belongsToMany('Reciept');
}
}
I can understand if you wouldn't want to rename your items_sold table because it's specific name denotes it's usage past just a join table.
Another thing to note about adding these relationships to the model is that it allows your to perform eager loading with your requests which could be helpful in your situations.
Let's say you wanted to get all items for a specific receipt by it's id all in one go. You could use the following request to get everything together:
$receiptAndItems = Receipt::with('items')->find($recieptId);
This would return both the details on your particular Receipt record AND a key items with all of the related Item records for that given receipt:
// Your `receipt` record
// this is the output when you add `->toArray()` at the end to make it a bit easier to read
array (size=7)
'id' => int 2
'name' => string 'Foo' (length=12)
'created_at' => string '2014-11-22 16:30:02' (length=19)
'updated_at' => string '2014-11-22 16:30:02' (length=19)
'items' =>
array (size=3)
0 =>
array (size=7)
'id' => int 1
'name' => string 'Bar' (length=13)
'created_at' => string '2014-11-22 16:30:02' (length=19)
'updated_at' => string '2014-11-22 16:30:02' (length=19)
'pivot' =>
array (size=2)
...
1 =>
array (size=7)
'id' => int 2
'name' => string 'Baz' (length=20)
'created_at' => string '2014-11-22 16:30:02' (length=19)
'updated_at' => string '2014-11-22 16:30:02' (length=19)
'pivot' =>
array (size=2)
...
2 =>
array (size=7)
'id' => int 3
'name' => string 'FooBarBaz' (length=18)
'created_at' => string '2014-11-22 16:30:02' (length=19)
'updated_at' => string '2014-11-22 16:30:02' (length=19)
'pivot' =>
array (size=2)
I'm pretty sure what you actually need is a many-to-many relationship found here
public function items(){
return $this->belongsToMany('Items', 'items_sold');
}
Is you model really called "Items"? If it's actually "Item", change to first parameter in the above code accordingly
