Laravel 8 - Get Visitors User Details - laravel

Question

hoping something can help. I've been struggling with this one for a while and not sure if its something obvious that I am missing.
I have a user profile setup, where when someone views it, it stores the user id of that person in a table. I would like to create a "Who's visited me" where it will show the user details of that person who has visited their profile.
So far everything is working but I cannot get the Who's visited me working to show the details.
Here is what I have so far
User Model
public function profile()
{
return $this->hasOne(Profile::class);
}
public function profileViews(){
return $this->hasMany(ProfileView::class, 'profile_id');
}
ProfileView Model
protected $fillable = [
'profile_id',
'visitor_id',
];
public function users()
{
return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
}
Profile Controller
public function profile(User $user)
{
$profile_id = $user->id;
ProfileView::updateOrCreate(['visitor_id' => Auth::user()->id, 'profile_id' => $profile_id, 'updated_at' => now()]);
return view('members.users.profile', compact('user' ));
}
Just incase you need it, my migration for the Profile Visitors Tables
Profile View Table
public function up()
{
Schema::create('profile_views', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->id();
$table->unsignedBigInteger('visitor_id');
$table->unsignedBigInteger('profile_id');
$table->timestamps();
$table->foreign('visitor_id')
->references('id')
->on('users')
->onDelete('cascade');
});
}
Here is what I have in the Who has visited me (this is where I am struggling so was playing about
#foreach(Auth::user()->profileViews as $view)
{<li>{{ $view->user->name }} </li>}
#endforeach

Answer 1

So we only have two models here, User and Profile, with a many-to-many relationship. ProfileView is actually just a pivot between the two, so a class definition isn't needed. But assuming the timestamp is something you'd like to get access to, you'll need to make allowances for that.
I'd suggest something like this:
class User extends Model {
public function profile() {
return $this->hasOne(Profile::class);
}
}
class Profile extends Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model {
public function user() {
return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
}
public function views() {
return $this->hasMany(User::class, 'profile_views', 'profile_id', 'visitor_id')
->withPivot('created_at');
}
}
Now, to add a profile view you can edit your controller method like this (I assume the $user is the user whose profile is being viewed.) Rather than creating an instance of the pivot, you attach the relationship. I've detached previous relationships, assuming you only want to keep the most recent one.
public function profile(User $user)
{
$user->profile->views()->detach(Auth::id());
$user->profile->views()->attach(Auth::id());
return view('members.users.profile', compact('user'));
}
And to retrieve the information:
<ul>
#foreach(Auth::user()->profile->views as $view)
<li>{{ $view->name }} # {{ $view->pivot->created_at }} </li>
#endforeach
</ul>
This is all a bit verbose due to your naming not matching Laravel conventions, and your choice to store profile_id in the pivot table instead of user_id but should do what you need.