Laravel 5.1 Join issue while using Eloquent

Question

Here is my Model Receipe

 public function favorite()
{
    return $this->hasMany('App\ReceipeFavorite');
}

Here i can able to get the

 $userId = 1;
 $favorite = User::find($userId)->favorite;
 return $favorite;

Using this i can able to fetch the record with id user_id in the receipe_favorites table by having this query.

ie, Record matching for all the coloumns with user_id - 1

$favorite = User::find(1)->favorite;
return $favorite;


[{"id":1,"receipe_id":"1","user_id":"1","created_at":"2015-09-15 15:49:12","updated_at":"2015-09-15 15:49:12"},{"id":2,"receipe_id":"2","user_id":"1","created_at":"2015-09-15 15:50:07","updated_at":"2015-09-15 15:50:07"}]

Now, I wanted to get the Receipe Name along with the Result.

Here is my Table Structure

Table

users
->id

receipe
->id

receipe_favorites
->id
->receipe_id
->user_id

Note :

I am trying to get the Receipe Id, Receipe Name if the User Id is passed.

Answer 1

Try the following, I had a similar thing to do:

public function favorite() {
    return $this->belongsToMany('App\Receipe', 'receipe_favorites', 'user_id', 'receipe_id');
}

This is how you define a many-to-many relationship.

Params:

1. Model
2. Pivot table
3. Column to join in current model
4. Column to join model defined in 1)

See more examples here