laravel new many to many relation with pivot table

Question

Hi i have a table with many to many relation.

hubs

id  |  name

country_hub

hub_id  |  country_id

countries

id  |  name   

and another table

categories

id  |  name

Categories belongs to combination of hub_id and country_id which is again a many to many relation to pivot table country_hub eg

country_hub_id |  category_id   

Please can anybody suggest me how do i manage this. Should i make another pivot table category_country_hub and how do i implement it in Laravel?

which one is good approach

category_country_hub

country_hub_id | category_id

OR

category_country_hub

hub_id  |  country_id | category_id

Answer 1

All you need is to remove the categories table. You can access the country_id and hub_id using the pivot method. Maybe this will helpLaravel's Documentation on Many to Many Relationships