Laravel eloquent relation query

Question

I want to retrieve the users risk categories

risks table

id
risk
category_id

risk_user table

id
risk_id
user_id

risk_categorys

id
category

To retrieve a risks category works fine, in my model I do this:

class Risk extends Eloquent{

    protected $table = 'risks';

    public $timestamps = false;

    public function users()
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany('User');
    }

    public function category() 
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('RiskCategory');
    }

}

But I struggle when it comes to retrieving all of the risk categories for a specific user.

Answer 1

I'd do it this way:

User Model

class User extends Eloquent{    
    public function risks(){
        return $this->belongsToMany('Risk');
    }
}

Then you can use Eager Loading to get the category for all your risks.

Query

User::find(1)->risks()->with('category')->get();

Since I don't have all your code nor your database I can't test it, but theoretically it should work ;) if not, just leave me a comment.