I have a program to share services between people. Basically I am facing a problem trying to get the conversations between users. Here is the idea:
My program allows users to offer services to other users, but also to acquire services from other users. Each user can register an unlimited number of services.
When a user finds a service that he/she wants to get, he creates a deal and starts a conversation with the counterpart.
The structure of my tables is the following (I am only including the relationship columns):
Users table
id // This is the user identifier
Services table
id // This is the service identifier
user_id // This is the identifier of the user who created the service
Deals table
id // This is the deal identifier
user_id // This is the identifier of the user acquiring the service
service_id // This is the identifier of the service being acquired in this deal
Conversations table
id // This is the identifier of the conversation
deal_id // This is the identifier of the deal that the conversation belongs to
Here is my problem:
I want to be able to retrieve the conversations for each user, both as applicant and as a seller.
I created this relationship (in User.php) for conversations in which the user is acquiring the service:
public function conversationsApplicant(){
return $this->hasManyThrough( Conversations::class, Deal::class );
}
I would like to create also the conversationsSeller() function
public function conversationsSeller(){
return $this->????;
}
I am guessing I should add some kind of relationship between a Conversation and a Service in Service.php. It would be something like $this->services()->with( 'deals' )->with( 'conversations' );
The final goal would be to have a method that returns both relationships in one $user->conversations()->get().
public function conversations(){
return $this->conversationsApplicant() + $this->conversationsSeller();
}
To retrieve the relationship I was thinking that maybe there is a workaround using a SQL query, but I am not sure if that will return the relationship as I need it. Here is the query that I need to perform:
SELECT
conversations.*
FROM
mydb.conversations, mydb.services, mydb.users, mydb.deals
WHERE
users.id = services.user_id AND
services.id = deals.service_id AND
deals.id = conversations.deal_id AND
users.id = $user->id;
Here is how you implement merged relationship simply
public function getCombinedChats($value)
{
// There two calls return collections
// as defined in relations.
$Applicant= $this->conversationsApplicant;
$Seller= $this->conversationsSeller;
// Merge collections and return single collection.
return $Applicant->merge($Seller);
}
Related
I have two tables, one is Users and the other is Loans. These have one to many relationship between them. One user can have many loans and one loan belongs to one User.
Now I want to get the user from the list of loans.
Loan::where('user_id', $user)->get()
This give me repeated array of sample user associated to the multiple loans. But I want to get only a single record, like many loans associate to one user.
I assume you already set up relationships between User & Loan Models
// App\User
public function loans() {
return $this->hasMany('App\Loan');
}
// App\Loan
public function user() {
return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
}
Get user from the list of loans
$user = Loan::where('user_id', $id)->first()->user;
// eager loading version
$loansWithUsers = Loan::with('user')->where('user_id', $id)->get();
Loans associate to one user
$loans = User::findOrFail($id)->loans;
// eager loading version
$userWithLoans = User::with('loans')->findOrFail($id);
For what I understand in your question, you want to get the user together with it's loan right ? Your query should like this.
$user_loans = User::with('loans')->where('id', $user_id)->get();
Get the user informations from loan table
Loan::where('user_id', $user_id)->with('user')->get()
Ge the users from loans table depends on brach id
Loan::where('branch_id', $branch_id)->with('user')->get();
I have tables:
user
id
name
companies
id
name
company_user
company_id
user_id
Tables has Many To Many relationships.
As it complicated relationship for me, I can't find way how to make this limit, when user can see companies that was created by this user. (probably not well experienced)
Now I have this, but user can see any company
CompanyController:
public function show($company_id)
{
$company = Company::where('id', $company_id)->firstOrFail();
return view('company.settings', compact('company'));
}
So tip me please how to make user can see only companies created by this user.
You can do this:
public function show($company_id)
{
$company = auth()->user()->companies()->findOrFail($company_id);
return view('company.settings', compact('company'));
}
It will scope the company to the currently logged in user (through the many-to-many relationship on the User model). If none is found, it will return 404.
Since it many to many relation, you can map one company to many users, also map one user to many companies. Check if you have not mistakenly assign the company to many user
Also the above code can be written the way
public function show($company_id)
{
$company = Company::findOrFail($company_id);
return view('company.settings', compact('company'));
}
I need to display all the vehicle records belonging to properties of the currenty logged on user.
Before I pass the data to the view I need to filter out all the properties except those owned by the current user id.
I have a relationship in the Vehicle model that performs the foreign key constraint.
public function propiedad(){
return $this->belongsTo('App\Property', 'propiedad_id','id' );
}
My Controller is using this filter before passing the data to the view. I assume I have to acquire the property ids that belong to the user before I filter the vehicles that belong to those properties. This is where I am having trouble.
$user_properties = array(?????);
$Vehiculo = Vehiculo::where('propiedad_id', $user_properties);
If your properties table has a user_id column then on your user model define a vehicles hasManyThrough relationship like
public function vehicles()
{
return $this->hasManyThrough(Vehicle::class, Property::class);
}
Then in your controller you can do:
$users = User::with('vehicles')->get();
Or for a single user
$vehicles= User::find($id)->vehicles;
In Laravel we can manage Users and Permissions easly but i've a problem with my application.
In my application a User is attached to One or Many department.
But a User can have different Role/Permission between departments. That is the problem. In the department One he can have a Admin Role and in the department Two he can only have a User Role. When the User switch between department i would like that his Role can be update.
How i can manage this in Laravel and Eloquent ?
Thank you for your help.
Jeffrey
Without seeing any of your code, I am forced to be fairly generic here. But here is the basic concept.
Architecture
Assuming you have tables like departments, users, roles, and permissions already, all you would need next is define a joining table. Something like this:
department_role_user
department_id // for this department
role_id // this role is assigned to
user_id // this user
Authorization
Define something like a hasPermissionTo() method on your User model.
Definition
class User
{
public function hasPermissionTo($action, $department)
{
// first get permission
$permission = Permission::where('action', $action)->first();
// get all roles which have this permission
$roles = $permission->roles;
return DB::table('department_role_user')
->where('user_id', $this->id) // current user
->where('department_id', $department->id) // the dept
->whereIn('role_id', $roles->pluck('id')) // any of the roles
->exists();
}
}
Usage
And use it like so.
if ($user->hasPermissionTo('do-something', $someDept)) {
// allow action
} else {
// no way
}
This should also work nicely with Laravel's Gates and Policies. Just use your new hasPermissionTo() method inside your gate/policy definitions.
I'm exploring Laravel's Eloquent as a drop-in replacement for my project's current, home-grown active record data layer. Currently, I have a class User that supports a many-to-many relationship with another class, Group. My current implementation looks something like:
class User {
protected $_groups; // An array of Group objects to which this User belongs
public function __construct($properties = []){
...
}
public function groups() {
if (isset($_groups))
return $_groups;
else
return $_groups = fetchGroups();
}
private function fetchGroups() {
// Lazily load the associated groups based on the `group_user` table
...
}
public function addGroup($group_id) {
// Check that the group exists and that this User isn't already a member of the group. If so, insert $group_id to $_groups.
...
}
public function removeGroup($group_id) {
// Check that the User is already a member of the group. If so, remove $group_id from $_groups.
...
}
public function fresh() {
// Reload user and group membership from the database into this object.
...
}
public function store() {
// Insert/update the user record in the `user` table, and insert/update/delete records in `group_user` based on the contents of `$_group_user`.
...
}
public function delete() {
// If it exists, delete the user record from the `user` table, and delete all associated records in `group_user`.
...
}
}
As you can see, my class:
Performs lazy loading of related groups, caching after the first time they're queried;
Maintains an internal representation of the User's relationship with their Groups, updating in the database only when store is called;
Performs sanity checks when establishing relationships, making sure that a Group exists and is not already related to the User before creating a new association.
Which, if any of these things, will Eloquent automatically take care of for me? Or, is my design flawed in some way that Eloquent can solve?
You can assume that I will re-implement User as User extends Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model and use Eloquent's belongsToMany as a replacement for my current fetchGroups method.
Eloquent caches the results of relationships internally, yes. You can see that in action in the Model::getRelationValue() method.
Eloquent also provides you with methods to help you manage the many-to-many relationship. You could implement this functionality inside your existing API. However, here are some things to look out for:
When using attach(), detach(), etc., the queries are performed immediately. Calling the parent User::save() method would only save the User's details, not the many-to-many relationship information. You could work around this by storing the IDs passed to your API temporarily, and then act upon them when you call User::store().
No sanity checks are performed when using attach/detach/etc. It would be good to apply these in your API if they're needed.
Adding or removing an ID to/from a many-to-many relationship will not affect the cached results of the initial relationship query. You would have to add in logic to insert or remove the related models into the collection.
For example, let's say a User has two Groups. When I load the user, I can access those groups using $user->groups. I now have a Collection of Groups cached inside the User model. If I call for $user->groups again, it will returned this cached Collection.
If I remove one Group using $user->detach($groupId), a query will be performed to update the join table, but the cached Collection will not change. Same goes for adding a group.