Laravel Eloquent for Social Network - laravel

Question

I'm building a social network. I have Users and Posts. for like concept I created a table (Likes):
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|id | post_id | user_id |
| | | |
I want to show people who like a post below each post.
so I need to save a row for each Like
.
My problem is Eloquent and how to save a Like row
$post = Post::find($request->postId);
$like = new Likes();
$user = $request->user();
$post->likes()->save($like, $user);
return 'done';
this code set user_id (Likes tabel) 0
is there a better way for Like Concept?

Answer 1

in your controller use this method :
public function postLikePost(Request $request)
{
$post_id = $request['postId'];
$is_like = $request['isLike'] === 'true' ? true:false;
$update = false;
$post = Post::find($post_id);
if(!$post){
return null;
}
$user = Auth::user();
$like = $user->likes()->where('post_id',$post_id)->first();
if($like){
$liked = $like->likes;
$update = true;
if($liked == $is_like)
{
$like->delete();
return null;
}
} else
{
$like = new Like();
//die($like);
}
$like->likes = $is_like;
$like->user_id = $user->id;
$like->post_id = $post->id;
if($update){
$like->update();
}
else{
$like->save();
}
return null;
}