Laravel accessing BelongsTo Model of a HasMany relationship

Question

Basically I have three models , Wedding , invites , and users. Weddings has invites and invites has users ( keeping in mind that user can belong to multiple invites ) . I want to access $wedding->users directly.

Wedding.php

class Wedding extends Model
{

  public function invites()
  {
     return $this->hasMany(Invite::class);
  }
...

Invites.php

class Invite extends Model
{

  public function user()
  {
     return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
  }
...

Tables:

Wedding
- id
- name

Invite
- invite_date
- wedding_id
- user_id

User
- id
- name
- email

And i want to access retrieve users directly , using $wedding->users What's the relationship between Wedding and users?

Answer 1

Add this method to your Widding class

public function users()
{
    return $this->hasManyThrough('App\User', 'App\Invite');
}

for more about hasManyThrough see the documentation .

Answer 2

It's a BelongsToMany relationship:

public function users() {
    return $this->belongsToMany(User::class, 'invites');
}