Laravel : hasOne Eloquent Relationships

Question

I have a transactions table, which hasOne site and hasOne accounthead . But the site does not necessarily require to be bound to any transaction and the accounthead can also stand alone without being bound to any transaction .

Basically the Site and AccountHead does not necessarily belongsTo Transaction .

How can I represent this scenario using eloquent relationships.

Am I missing anything I need to do in my Site and AccountHead Model?

Here's what I have already done:

My transaction model:

    class Transaction extends Model
{
  public function site()
    {
        return $this->hasOne('App\Site');
    }
    public function accounthead()
    {
        return $this->hasOne('App\AccountHead');
    }
}

My Site Model

    class Site extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = [
        'name',
        'slug',
        'location',
        'description'
    ];
}

My AccountHead Model

class AccountHead extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = [
        'slug',
        'accountname'
        ];
}

I need to be able to display the site and the accounthead for every transactions in my view.

In my view:

 @forelse($transactions as $transaction)
     <td>{{str_limit($transaction->accounthead,47)}}</td>
     <td>{{str_limit($transaction->site,47)}}</td>
   @endforelse

Answer 1

Firstly, both tables need a transation_id field to add the transation record id. This can be nullable() and should be unique() to make sure that no other record has the same transation_id .

...
$table->integer('transation_id')->nullable()->unique();
...

In your view, you need to specify data you want from the relation. Eg

<td>{{str_limit($transaction->accounthead->accountname,47)}}</td>
<td>{{str_limit($transaction->site->name,47)}}</td>

accountname/name being the field you want returned to the view.

Answer 2

Solved.

It wasn't actually a one on one relationship, but was a hasMany relationship between a Site and Transaction and a AccountHead and Transaction .

My new Site model looks like:

class Site extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = [
        'name',
        'slug',
        'location',
        'description'
    ];

 public function transactions()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('App\Transaction','site_id');
    }
}

My new AccountHead Model Looks like:

class AccountHead extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = [
        'slug',
        'accountname'
        ];

public function transactions()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('App\Transaction','accounthead_id');
    }
}

And my new Transaction model looks like:

    class Transaction extends Model
{
  public function site()
    {
      return $this->belongsTo('App\Site','id');
    }
    public function accounthead()
    {
      return $this->belongsTo('App\AccountHead','id');
    }
}