Laravel Eloquent hasMany returning only one result?

Question

So my Client model has a hasMany relationship with the Project model, because every client in the client table is associated with many projects in the projects table.

The method looks like this:

Client.php:

public function projects()
{
    return $this->hasMany('App\Projects', 'id', 'project_id');
}

Seems pretty straightforward. But when I try this from a controller:

$projects = Client::find(1)->projects()->get()

I get only a single result, the FIRST result, from the Project model, when there should be about a half dozen. This even happens if I change the integer sent to find().

So Eloquent is returning on the first row of the projects table every time. Why is it doing this and/or how can I get all of the relevant results?

Answer 1

A hasMany (or one-to-many ) relationship is defined in the Laravel Documentation as

A "one-to-many" relationship is used to define relationships where a single model owns any amount of other models.

In this case Many simply means one or more.

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I assume that every project has a client_id reference. In that case changing your projects() function to

return $this->hasMany('App\Projects', 'client_id');

should work for you.