Laravel: How to display OneToMany in a View - laravel

Question

Help Please.
Newbie here. I need to display the name of Patron and Item instead of displaying their id. I have 3 tables:
Patrons (id, name), Items (id, name), Transactions (patron_id, item_id, loaned, due, returned)
Patron model
public function transaction ()
{
return $this->hasMany(Transaction::class);
}
Item model
public function transaction ()
{
return $this->hasMany(Transaction::class);
}
Transactions model
public function item()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Item::class);
}
public function patrons()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Patron::class);
}
This is the part where I'm really confused. I don't know how to code the TransactionController and the View.
Transaction Controller: (Is this even right?)
$transactions = Transaction::paginate(10);
return view('transactions.index')->with(compact('transactions'))->with('patrons', Patron::all())->with('items', Item::all());
index.blade.php (I don't know how to code this)
#foreach($transactions as $transaction)
<tr role="row" class="odd">
<td class="sorting_1 dtr-control">{{ $transaction->patron_id }}</td>
<td>{{ $transaction->item_id }}</td>
<td>{{ $transaction->Loaned }}</td>
<td>{{ $transaction->Due }}</td>
</tr>
#endforeach
The View displays like this:
1 1 2020-09-21
2 5 2020-09-21
But I need it to display like this:
John Doe Harry Potter 2020-09-21
Mary Jane Game of Thrones 2020-09-21

Answer 1

The issue is coming from how you are pulling data from the database and how you are pushing it to the view.
For retrieving data, you can eager load your transactions model with all of its relationships in one go and paginate at the same time:
$transactions = Transaction::with('patron', 'item')->paginate(15);
Take a look at the docs on views, there are a number of ways of transferring data. Compact works pretty well and is easy to understand with multiple returns, so I'll give an example of that here:
return view('transactions.index', compact('transactions'));
And that's it - just remember to type the variable transactions within quotes and not put the actual variable inside the compact method.
Then, because you have eager loaded the relationship, in your view you can now call upon the relationship name instead of just the id number. For example:
<td>{{ $transaction->item->name }}</td>
Suggest you rename the relationship from patrons to patron as it is a belongsTo.