Display the connected customer information - laravel

Question

I have 2 tables which are user and customer, The first table has the following fields: (id, name, email, password)
Then, the table customer has the following fields: (id, name, firstname).
In my Controller Customer, via my function index(), I have to retrieve id_user from my table user.
Question 1: Is my relationship correct between my 2 tables?
Model Customer
protected $fillable = ['name', 'firstname', 'user_id'];
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
}
Model User
public function customers()
{
return $this->hasOne('App\Customer');
}
Question 2: How do I retrieve ID of the user who is connected ?
I have for now this only...
public function index()
{
$customers = Customer::orderby('id', 'desc')->paginate(5);
return view('customers.index', compact('customers'));
}
Question 3: I want to understand the two answers, but I would also like to understand how I can adapt my file index.blade.php via my loop, please.
#foreach($customers as $customer)
<tr>
<td> {{$customer->name}}</td>
<td> {{$customer->firstname}}</td>
Thank you for your explanations.

Answer 1

Your models are good. If you want to return user relation for every customer you should try like this:
public function index()
{
$customers = Customer::with('user')->orderby('id', 'desc')->paginate(5);
return view('customers.index', compact('customers'));
}
And in your view you should have:
#foreach($customers as $customer)
<tr>
<td> {{$customer->name}}</td>
<td> {{$customer->firstname}}</td>
<td> {{$customer->user->id}}</td>
More about that here.

Answer 2

Question 1: Is my relationship correct between my 2 tables?
Yes, your relationship is correct.
Explanation:
For your customer table, you indicate that a customer profile belongs to one and only one user. This is an inverse one-to-one entity relationship.
For your user table, you indicate that a user has one and only one customer profile. This is a one-to-one entity relationship.
Question 2: How do I retrieve ID of the user who is connected?
Use Laravel's Eager Loading by calling the with() method to retrieve the customer data with the associated user data like this:
public function index()
{
$customers = Customer::with('user')->orderby('id', 'desc')->paginate(5);
return view('customers.index', compact('customers'));
}
Explanation:
The returned result can be visualized like this:
{Customer}
|
•id
•name
•firstname
•{user}
|
• id
• name
• email
Finally you can get the results including the user ID in your view like this:
#foreach($customers as $customer)
<tr>
<td>{{ $customer->user->id }}</td>
<td>{{ $customer->firstname }}</td>
<td>{{ $customer->name }</td>
</tr>
#endforeach
For more details on Laravel Entity Relationships see the relevant Laravel documentation.