Using HasMany relationship when Model and table have different names - laravel

Question

Like the title says, my Field model and application_fields table have different names. I already set the table name on the Field model to the correct table name. A set the I have another model, Application, and its controller, ApplicationController. In the index method of the ApplicationController, I am trying to retrieve the application and its fields. The Field model has a belongsTo relationship to Application, and the Application model has a hasMany relationship to Field.
The code seems to work, except it pulls the values for the rows from the applications table. So if the applications table has the following rows:
1 'AppOne' 'An App'
2 'AppTwo' 'Another App'
3 'AppThree' 'A third App'
AppOne, AppTwo, and AppThree are returned as the values for the fields.
Can someone give me some advice?
Here is the code for them( I only copied what was related to the issue, not the entire file):
Application model:
/**
* The table associated with the model.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $table = 'application_fields';
public function fields()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Field');
}
Field model:
public function application()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Application');
}
ApplicationController:
/**
* Display the dashboard for a single application.
*
* #param String $id
* #return View
*/
public function show( $id )
{
$app = Application::where('id', $id)->first();
$fields = $app::with('application_fields')->get();
return view('applications.show', [
'application' => $app,
'fields' => $fields,
]);
}
View( I stripped out the HTML):
{{ $application->name }}
{{ $application->description }}
#foreach($fields as $field)
{{ $field->name}}
#endforeach
I would appreciate any advice on what I am doing wrong. Thanks

Answer 1

your show method is wrong, eager loading does not work that way :)
public function show( $id ) {
$app = Application::with('fields')->find($id);
$fields = $app->fields;
return view('applications.show', [
'application' => $app,
'fields' => $fields,
]);
}
you can also use model Binding if your route is like that : applications/{app}
public function show(Application $app) {
$fields = $app->fields;
return view('applications.show', [
'application' => $app,
'fields' => $fields,
]);
}