Optimizing Laravel Query to get required data - laravel

Question

I have the following models in my Laravel project
Merchant
Deals
Deal Votes
Deal Clicks
Deal Deal Types
Merchant Rating
This is how my Merchants Model looks like
class Merchants extends Model
{
//
public function deals()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Deals', 'merchant_id', 'merchant_id');
}
}
Deals Model
class Deals extends Model
{
//
public function clicks()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Clicks', 'deal_id', 'deal_id');
}
public function merchants()
{
return $this->hasOne('App\Merchants', 'deal_id', 'deal_id');
}
public function votes()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Deal_votes', 'deal_id', 'deal_id');
}
public function deal_dealtypes()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Deal_dealtypes', 'deal_id', 'deal_id');
}
}
Merchant Rating Model
public function merchants()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Merchants', 'merchant_id', 'merchant_id');
}
For a specific Merchant Landing page, I am trying to get some Merchant info, deals tied to the merchant, count of votes and clicks for each Deal. This is what I have done so far
$merchant = Merchants::where('merchant_url_text', $merchant_url_text)
-> with('categories' ,'deals','deals.votes','deals.clicks', 'deals.deal_dealtypes')
-> first();
This however is returning Merchant Info, Deal Info, All the Votes records tied to the Deal and all the clicks tied to each deal.
Attached sample data response I am getting
{
merchant_id: 6605,
master_merchant_id: null,
skimlinks_id: null,
merchant_name: "Groupon",
network: "cj",
network_id: "",
network_notes: null,
dual_network: null,
related_merchants: null,
affiliate_link: "http://api.coupilia.com/merchants/?aid=1423&mid=6605",
skimlinks_url: null,
fmtcurl: null,
merchant_homepage_url: "www.groupon.com?z=dealpage",
status: null,
selected_status: null,
relationship_status: null,
primary_country: "US",
apofpo: null,
primary_category: null,
subcategories: null,
special_payment_options: null,
mobile_certified: null,
logos: "",
custom_logo: "https://res-5.cloudinary.com/dhhntbusx/image/upload/t_media_lib_thumb/v1475206550/Groupon-coupons_mzjdm8.jpg",
custom_description: null,
added: null,
lastupdated: null,
merchant_url_text: "groupon.com",
about: "",
primary_category_id: "43",
parent_merchant_id: null,
skimlinks_ids: null,
custom_merchant_name: null,
ship_to_countries: "",
created_at: "2016-10-07 08:04:12",
updated_at: "2016-10-07 08:04:12",
categories: {
id: 43,
slug: "social",
category_name: "Social",
category_url_name: "social",
category_parent_id: null,
category_grandparent_id: null,
created_at: "2016-10-07 08:04:03",
updated_at: "2016-10-07 08:04:03"
},
deals: [
{
deal_id: 875438,
merchant_name: "Groupon",
merchant_id: 6605,
status: null,
deal_text: "Save Up To 90% Off Local Restaurants, Shops, Events And More",
restrictions: "",
coupon_code: "",
deal_start_date: "1/31/2016",
deal_end_date: "11/6/2016",
discount_type: null,
deal_type: "deal",
affiliate_url: "",
final_sale_price: null,
was_price: null,
discount: null,
percent_off: null,
dollars_off: null,
network: null,
image: null,
skimlinks_url: null,
fmtcurl: null,
created: null,
lastupdated: null,
threshold: null,
rank: "3",
starred: null,
master_merchant_id: null,
brands: null,
local: null,
link_id: null,
direct_url: null,
pixel_html: null,
created_at: "2016-10-07 08:05:26",
updated_at: "2016-10-07 08:05:26",
votes: [
{
id: 2,
deal_id: 875438,
vote: 1,
user_id: 0,
uuid: "ad63d5a0-2582-11e6-9a1c-49da886e8d6c",
created_at: "2016-10-12 05:23:57",
updated_at: "2016-10-12 05:23:57"
},
{
id: 5,
deal_id: 875438,
vote: 1,
user_id: 0,
uuid: "bde41ea0-903c-11e6-b93b-51bc5393a427",
created_at: "2016-10-12 05:28:50",
updated_at: "2016-10-12 05:28:50"
}
],
clicks: [
{
id: 1,
tracking_id: null,
merchant_id: null,
deal_id: "875438",
user_id: null,
user_tracking_id: null,
referring_url: "http://trystin.app:8000/deals-coupons/groupon.com",
referring_domain: null,
page_type: null,
page_url: null,
utm_source: null,
utm_medium: null,
utm_term: null,
utm_campaign_id: null,
os: "OS X",
ip_address: "10.0.2.2",
browser: "Chrome",
initial_referring_domain: null,
referring_keyword: null,
deal_position: null,
click_type: null,
created_at: "2016-10-12 02:19:59",
updated_at: "2016-10-12 02:19:59"
},
{
id: 12,
tracking_id: null,
merchant_id: null,
deal_id: "875438",
user_id: null,
user_tracking_id: null,
referring_url: "http://trystin.app:8000/deals-coupons/groupon.com",
referring_domain: null,
page_type: null,
page_url: null,
utm_source: null,
utm_medium: null,
utm_term: null,
utm_campaign_id: null,
os: "OS X",
ip_address: "10.0.2.2",
browser: "Chrome",
initial_referring_domain: null,
referring_keyword: null,
deal_position: null,
click_type: null,
created_at: "2016-10-21 03:41:11",
updated_at: "2016-10-21 03:41:11"
},
{
id: 15,
tracking_id: null,
merchant_id: null,
deal_id: "875438",
user_id: null,
user_tracking_id: null,
referring_url: "http://trystin.app:8000/deals-coupons/groupon.com",
referring_domain: null,
page_type: null,
page_url: null,
utm_source: null,
utm_medium: null,
utm_term: null,
utm_campaign_id: null,
os: "OS X",
ip_address: "10.0.2.2",
browser: "Chrome",
initial_referring_domain: null,
referring_keyword: null,
deal_position: null,
click_type: null,
created_at: "2016-10-21 03:55:33",
updated_at: "2016-10-21 03:55:33"
},
{
id: 16,
tracking_id: null,
merchant_id: null,
deal_id: "875438",
user_id: null,
user_tracking_id: null,
referring_url: "http://trystin.app:8000/deals-coupons/groupon.com",
referring_domain: null,
page_type: null,
page_url: null,
utm_source: null,
utm_medium: null,
utm_term: null,
utm_campaign_id: null,
os: "OS X",
ip_address: "10.0.2.2",
browser: "Chrome",
initial_referring_domain: null,
referring_keyword: null,
deal_position: null,
click_type: null,
created_at: "2016-10-21 04:06:08",
updated_at: "2016-10-21 04:06:08"
}
],
deal_dealtypes: [
{
id: 1888,
deal_id: "875438",
dealtype_id: "3",
created_at: "2016-10-07 08:05:26",
updated_at: "2016-10-07 08:05:26"
}
]
},
}
I need some help with the following
Get limited fields and not all fields tied to Merchant
Get limited fields from deals object
Get Count of Votes and Clicks for each deal in the response

Answer 1

To get limited fields you can use select() function and to get counts you can use withCount() function.
So your query will be as:
$merchant = Merchants::where('merchant_url_text', $merchant_url_text)
->select('id', 'name')
->with(['deals' => function($q) {
$q->select('id', 'name')
->with('votes','clicks', 'deal_dealtypes')
->withCount('votes')
->withCount('clicks');
}])
->with('categories')
-> first();