Laravel: How to get data from 3 tables with relationship - laravel

Question

I have 3 Tables:
Customers
id
name
Sales
customer_id
sale_date
Contacts
customer_id
contact_date
There aren't any update operations in the contacts table. Each process opens a new record in the contacts table. So, a user can have more than one records in the contacts table.
Here are my relations in models:
Customer
public function contacts()
{
return $this->hasMany(Contact::class);
}
public function sales()
{
return $this->hasMany(Sale::class);
}
Contact
public function customer()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Customer', 'customer_id');
}
Sale
public function customer()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Customer');
}
I would like to have the latest record of the contacts table and make it join with the other related tables.
Here is the query which I have tried:
$record = Contact::groupBy('customer_id')
->select(DB::raw('max(id)'));
$result = Customer::query();
$result->where('is_active', 'YES');
$result->with('sales');
$result->whereHas('contacts', function ($q) use($record){
return $q->whereIn('id', $record)->where('result', 'UNCALLED');
});
return $result->get();
In the blade file, I get some result in foreach loops. However, I am unable to get the related data from the sales and contacts table.
#foreach($result as $item)
#foreach($item->sales as $sale) // Has no output and gives error: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
#foreach($item->contacts as $contact) // Has no output and gives error: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
Can anyone help me how to display the sale and contact date? Or any idea for how to improve this code quality?

Answer 1

If you want the latest record of the contacts you can declare another relationship on the Customer model, e.g.:
public function latest_contact()
{
return $this->hasOne(Contact::class)->latest('contact_date');
}
BTW you can always declare one or more hasOne additional relationship if you have a hasMany in place the foreign key used is the same.
In this way you can retrieve latest_contact eager loaded with your Customer model:
$customer = Customer::with('latest_contact')->find($id);
Or use this relationship in your queries, something like that:
$customers = Customer::where('is_active', 'YES')
->with('sales')
->with('contacts')
->whereHas('last_contact', function ($q){
return $q->where('result', 'UNCALLED');
})->get();
Or that:
$customers = Customer::where('is_active', 'YES')
->with('sales')
->with('contacts')
->with('last_contact', function ($q){
return $q->where('result', 'UNCALLED');
})->get();
If you want you can declare last_contact with the additional where:
public function latest_contact()
{
return $this->hasOne(Contact::class)
->where('result', 'UNCALLED')
->latest('contact_date');
}
This way all other queries should be easier.
I hope this can help you.

Answer 2

I'm not sure, but can you try to do the following:
return Customer::where('is_active', 'YES')
->with([
'sale',
'contact' => function ($query) use($record) {
return $query->whereIn('id', $record)->where('result', 'UNCALLED');
}
])->get();