Laravel: How to set the Primary Key and Foreign Ke

Question

I'm not using the auto increment for the id instead i'm using the 32 char unique id. So when i create a relationship and query, im getting a null because my FK expecting int my models

class User extend Eloquent {
    public $incrementing = false; 
}

class Reservation extend Eloquent {
    public $incrementing = false; 
}

so when i query this

$reservations = Reservation::with('user')->where('user_id', '=', '22beb4892ba944c8b1895855e1d4d1ad')->get();
i could not retrieve the users information but the reservations info is working fine
when i try to listen for query. eg:
Event::listen('illuminate.query', function($query, $bindings, $time, $name){
    var_dump($query);
    var_dump($bindings);
});

i get this

string(46) "select * from `reservation` where `user_id` = ?"
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  string(36) "22beb4892ba944c8b1895855e1d4d1ad"
}
string(53) "select * from `user` where `user`.`id` in (?)"
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  int(0)
}

the problem is in the second query i could not retrieve the users info because the user.id expecting int.

Answer 1

First, with innoDB you could make those foreing keys without problem

InnoDB allows a foreign key constraint to reference a non-unique key. This is an InnoDB extension to standard SQL.

Mabe you have your tables wrong, try this

For Reservations

    Schema::create('reservations', function($table)
    {
        $table->engine = 'InnoDB';
        $table->string('id', 32)->index();
        $table->string('name', 128);
        $table->string('user_id', 32)->references('id')->on('users');
        $table->timestamps();
    });

for users

    Schema::create('users', function($table)
    {
        $table->engine = 'InnoDB';
        $table->string('id', 32)->index();
        $table->string('name', 128);
        $table->timestamps();
    });

then you need to create the relationship in reservations

public function user(){
    return $this->belongsTo('User', 'user_id');
}

and now when you search

$reservations = Reservation::with('user')->where('user_id', '=', '22beb4892ba944c8b1895855e1d4d1ad')->get();

it must work! i've tested this code.