One-To-Many Relationships in laravel eloquent

Question

Good morning, I am having a little trouble with model relationships in Eloquent, I need to link articles and images for those articles with an intermediate table. In the intermediate table I'd like to add the id's of both article and image, and I would like to retrieve all the images belonging to an article, what would be the best way to manage the relationship? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You don't need to use pivot table since it'sone-to-many relationship.

Just use hasMany() relation:

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

And then use eager loading to load all images with article:

$article = Article::with('images')->where('id', $articleId)->first();

Answer 2

You can use morphMany() relationship ( Polymorphic Relationship ) to solve your problem like this:

UPDATE : The table structure goes like this:

- articles
    - id
    - title
    - content
    - ...

- images
    - id
    - owner_id
    - owner_type (Here there can be - Article, Auction, User, etc)
    - name
    - mime_type
    - ...

Polymorphic relations allow a model to belong to more than one other model on a single association. For example, imagine users of your application can "comment" both posts and videos. Using polymorphic relationships, you can use a single comments table for both of these scenarios.

You models will look like this:

class Article extends Model
{

    public function images()
    {
        return $this->morphMany(Image::class, 'owner');
    }

}

class Image extends Model
{

    public function owner()
    {
        return $this->morphTo();
    }

}

To save multiple images to an article, you can do like:

$article->images()->create([... inputs_arr ...]);

and to fetch them, you can do this like:

$articleImages = Article::find($id)->images;

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

In Image model class

class Image extends Model
{

    public function article()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(Article::class);
    }

}

Then you can access all the images that belong to Article as follows.

$image= Image::first();

Then for example when we want to get the name of the image that belongs to Article.

$imageName = $image->article->name;