Table Structure:
games
id | name
awards
id | award name | game_id (fk)
Relationships
A game can have many awards.
An award has one game.
class Games extends Model
{
public $timestamps = false;
public function awards()
{
return $this->hasMany('award');
}
}
I need to get all the games out of my database. I do this using:
Game::all();
I then need to get all of the games out of my database but include data from the awards table.
I want to have an array which I can loop through to output the games, and if the game has an award - output this also.
What would be the correct eloquent statement?
Laravel's relations are brilliant for this kind of thing. Everything you have so far is on the correct path.
// Controller
public function index()
{
$games = Game::all();
return view('games.index', compact('games'));
}
// View
#foreach($games as $game)
{{ $game->name }}
#if(count($game->awards) > 0)
// Game has some awards, lets loop through them
#foreach($game->awards as $award)
{{ $award->name }}
#endforeach
#endif
#endforeach
Using the relation you've setup in your Game model you can instantly access the related data from other tables. Now each time you call $game->awards it will query the database, however using Laravel's Eager Loading you can pull all this information out at the same time rather than on demand.
// Controller
public function index()
{
$games = Game::with('awards')->get();
return view('games.index', compact('games'));
}
and by doing the exact same thing in the view you're no longer running a new query each time you want to get a games awards as they've already be fetched from the database. More on eager loading here http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/eloquent#eager-loading
Related
i've 3 tables Branches,Subjects,Teachers
Branches and subjects already many to many.
i've CRUD for teacher,when i create teacher i insert info to user model to add new user with type teacher.
i want to make relation to allow me combine teachers/branches/subjects.
for example when i'm creating teacher i need to select branch/branches and subject/subjects that this teacher related to.
any hint allows me to do this ?
i it convert for you
If I get it right, you have established the many-to-many-relationships between every two of the three models
(Teacher, Branche & Subject).
Instead, you should establish the many-to many between any two models
of your choice and treat the third model as a pivot. For example:
Teacher.php
class Teacher extends Model
{
public function branches()
{
return $this->belongsToMany(Branche::class)->withPivot('subject');
}
}
Branche.php
class Branche extends Model
{
public function teachers()
{
return $this->belongsToMany(Teacher::class)->withPivot('subject');
}
}
view.blade.php
#foreach($teachers as $teacher)
#foreach($teacher->branches as $branc)
{{ $branc->name }} {{ $branc->pivot->subject }}
#endforeach
#endforeach
I have two tables related by many to many relation in Laravel Framework. I can display data from each table separately, but not through relation by taking one record from the 1st table and checking related records in the 2nd table. In tinker it accesses data fine.
Relations:
public function underperformances() {
return $this->belongsToMany(Underperformance::Class);
}
...
public function procedures() {
return $this->belongsToMany(Procedure::class);
}
My resource controller part:
...
use App\Underperformance;
use App\Procedure;
...
public function index()
{
$books = Underperformance::orderBy('id','desc')->paginate(9);
$procedures = Procedure::all();
return view('underpcon.underps', compact('books', 'procedures'));
}
Route:
Route::get('/underps', 'UnderpsController#index');
If I try to display data like this:
#foreach($procedures as $procedure)
<li>{{$procedure->underperformances}}</li>
#endforeach
I get such format to the browser:
[{"id":1,"title":"Spare part not taken before service","description":"tekstas","level":"1","costs":600 ...
This is correct data from related table, but I cannot select further the specific column from that table. For example this does not work:
#foreach($procedures as $procedure)
<li>{{$procedure->underperformances->id}}</li>
#endforeach
Nor this one:
#foreach ($procedures->underperformances as $underperformance)
<li>{{$underperformance->id}}</li>
#endforeach
How do I select records of the related table and display specific data from that table?
What would be a conventional way to do this?
#foreach($procedures as $procedure)
<li>{{$procedure->underperformances->id}}</li>
#endforeach
^ This right there $procedure->underperformances will return a collection, not a single item, so you need to treat it as array, you will not be able to access the id directly, you can either #foreach that, or use the pluck method in Laravel Collections.
I'm trying to create a function in our Laravel 5.8 app that would add multiple records to a pivot table. At present we have the following setup;
Users
Training Courses
Users Training Courses (pivot table for the above relationships, with a few extra fields)
I want to be able to show all users in the database, then check their name, pick a training course and hit "Add" and it'll create a record in the pivot table for each user that was selected.
I can't figure out where to start with this - it seems like I need to have a "for each user selected, run the store function" loop in the controller, but I have no idea where to start.
I wasn't sure if there was an easy way to do this in eloquent or not. Is there a simple way to do this?
Eloquent does this automatically if you set up the relationships correctly and you don't have to worry about pivot tables.
class Users
{
public function trainingCourses()
{
return $this->hasMany(TrainingCourses::class);
}
}
class TrainingCourses
{
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
}
}
Then you can use the save() method to create the relationship. But I find it better to wrap this function inside a helper method that you can use throughout your code:
class Users
{
...
public function assignTrainingCourse(TrainingCourse $trainingCourse)
{
return $this->trainingCourses()->save($trainingCourse);
}
}
In your code, you could then do something as simple as this:
$user = User::find(1);
$trainingCourse = TrainingCourse::find(1);
$user->assignTrainingCourse($trainingCourse);
Building on this, suppose you have the following route to assign a training course, where it expects a trainingcourse_id in the request:
Route::post('/users/{user}/trainingcourses', 'UserTrainingCoursesController#store');
Thanks to route model binding, Laravel can inference the parent model (user) from the URL, and your controller might look like this:
// UserTrainingCoursesController.php
public function store(User $user)
{
$trainingCourse = TrainingCourse::find(request()->input('trainingcourse_id'));
$user->assignTrainingCourse($trainingCourse);
return back();
}
Of course, you'll want to put some validation in here, but this should get you started.
I'm learning Laravel and Laravel eloquent at the moment and now I try to solve a problem using relations in Laravel.
This is what I want to archive:
The database holds many sport clubs. A sport club has a lot of teams. Each team has games. The teams table has a column named club_id. Now I want to create Eloquent relations to get all games of a club.
Here is what I got so far:
Club model
id => PRIMARY
public function games()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Games')->whereHas('homeTeam')->orWhereHas('guestTeam');
}
Game model
home_id => FOREIGN KEY of team ; guest_id => FOREIGN KEY of team
public function homeTeam()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\Team','home_id')->where('club_id','=', $club_id);
}
public function guestTeam()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\Team','guest_id')->where('club_id','=', $club_id);
}
Team model
id => PRIMARY ; club_id => FOREIGN
In my controller all I want to do is Club::findOrFail($id)->games()
Executing the code above returns a SQL error that the games table does not have a column named club_id.
What is the correct way to create this kind of relation?
Thanks!
EDIT
Thanks to Nikola Gavric I've found a way to get all Games - but only where club teams are the home or away team.
Here is the relation:
public function games()
{
return $this->hasManyThrough('App\Models\Game','App\Models\Team','club_id','home_id');
}
How is it possible to get the games where the home_id OR the guest_id matches a team of the club? The last parameter in this function does not allow an array.
There is method to retrieve a "distant relationship with an intermediary" and it is called Has Many Through.
There is also a concrete example on how to use it which includes Post, Country and User, but I think it will be sufficient to give you a hint on how to create games relationship inside of a Club model. Here is a link, but when you open it, search for hasManyThrough keyword and you will see an example.
P.S: With right keys naming you could achieve it with:
public function games()
{
return $this->hasManyThrough('App\Models\Games', 'App\Models\Teams');
}
EDIT #01
Since you have 2 types of teams, you can create 2 different relationships where each relationship will get you one of the type you need. Like this:
public function gamesAsHome()
{
return $this
->hasManyThrough('App\Models\Games', 'App\Models\Teams', 'club_id', 'home_id');
}
public function gamesAsGuests()
{
return $this
->hasManyThrough('App\Models\Games', 'App\Models\Teams', 'club_id', 'guest_id');
}
EDIT #02
Merging Relationships: To merge these 2 relationships, you can use merge() method on the Collection instance, what it will do is, it will append all the records from second collection into the first one.
$gamesHome = $model->gamesAsHome;
$gamesGuests = $model->gamesAsGuests;
$games = $gamesHome->merge($gamesGuests);
return $games->unique()->all();
Thanks to #HCK for pointing out that you might have duplicates after the merge and that unique() is required to get the unique games after the merge.
EDIT #03
sortBy also offers a callable instead of a attribute name in cases where Collection contains numerical indexing. You can sort your Collection like this:
$merged->sortBy(function($game, $key) {
return $game->created_at;
});
When you define that Club hasMany games you are indicating that game has a foreign key called club_id pointing to Club. belongsTo is the same but in the other way. These need to be coherent with what you have on your database, that means that you need to have defined those keys as foreign keys on your tables.
Try this...
Club model
public function games()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Games');
}
Game model
public function homeTeam()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\Team','home_id');
}
public function guestTeam()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\Team','guest_id');
}
Your Query like
Club::where('id',$id)->has('games.guestTeam')->get();
I want to implement page view counter in my app. What I've done so far is using this method :
public function showpost($titleslug) {
$post = Post::where('titleslug','=',$titleslug)->firstOrFail();
$viewed = Session::get('viewed_post', []);
if (!in_array($post->id, $viewed)) {
$post->increment('views');
Session::push('viewed_post', $post->id);
}
return view('posts/show', compact('post', $post));
}
I retrieve the popular posts list like this :
$popular_posts = Post::orderBy('views', 'desc')->take(10)->get();
However, I'd like to know if there are any better ways to do this ? And with my current method, can I get a list of most viewed posts in the past 24 hours ? That's all and thanks!
As quoted in # milo526's comment, you can record all hits to your pages in a unique way instead of an increment. With this you have many possibilities to search for access information, including the listing of the posts sorted by most viewed.
Create a table to save your view records:
Schema::create("posts_views", function(Blueprint $table)
{
$table->engine = "InnoDB";
$table->increments("id");
$table->increments("id_post");
$table->string("titleslug");
$table->string("url");
$table->string("session_id");
$table->string("user_id");
$table->string("ip");
$table->string("agent");
$table->timestamps();
});
Then, create the corresponding model:
<?php namespace App\Models;
class PostsViews extends \Eloquent {
protected $table = 'posts_views';
public static function createViewLog($post) {
$postsViews= new PostsViews();
$postsViews->id_post = $post->id;
$postsViews->titleslug = $post->titleslug;
$postsViews->url = \Request::url();
$postsViews->session_id = \Request::getSession()->getId();
$postsViews->user_id = \Auth::user()->id;
$postsViews->ip = \Request::getClientIp();
$postsViews->agent = \Request::header('User-Agent');
$postsViews->save();
}
}
Finally, your method:
public function showpost($titleslug)
{
$post = PostsViews::where('titleslug', '=' ,$titleslug)->firstOrFail();
PostsViews::createViewLog($post);
//Rest of method...
}
To search the most viewed posts in the last 24 hours:
$posts = Posts::join("posts_views", "posts_views.id_post", "=", "posts.id")
->where("created_at", ">=", date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime('-24 hours', time())))
->groupBy("posts.id")
->orderBy(DB::raw('COUNT(posts.id)', 'desc'))
->get(array(DB::raw('COUNT(posts.id) as total_views'), 'posts.*'));
Note that in PostsViews, you have data that can help further filter your listing, such as the session id, in case you do not want to consider hits from the same session.
You may need to adapt some aspects of this solution to your final code.
2020 Update (2)/ With Eloquent Relationships for Laravel 6
If you don't want to add a package to your application. I have developed the following solution based on "Jean Marcos" and "Learner" contribution to the question and my own research.
All credit goes to "Jean Marcos" and "Learner", I felt like I should do the same as Learner and update the code in a way the would be beneficial to others.
First of all, make sure you have a sessions table in the database. Otherwise, follow the steps in Laravel documentations to do so: HTTP Session
Make sure that the sessions are stored in the table. If not, make sure to change the SESSION_DRIVER variable at the .env set to 'database' not 'file' and do composer dump-autoload afterwards.
After that, you are all set to go. You can start by running the following console command:
php artisan make:model PostView -m
This will generate both the model and migration files.
Inside of the migration file put the following Schema. Be cautious with the columns names. For example, my posts table have the "slug" column title name instead of the "titleslug" which was mentioned in the question.
Schema::create('post_views', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments("id");
$table->unsignedInteger("post_id");
$table->string("titleslug");
$table->string("url");
$table->string("session_id");
$table->unsignedInteger('user_id')->nullable();
$table->string("ip");
$table->string("agent");
$table->timestamps();
});
Then put the following code inside the PostView model file.
<?php
namespace App;
use App\Post;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class PostView extends Model
{
public function postView()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Post::class);
}
public static function createViewLog($post) {
$postViews= new PostView();
$postViews->post_id = $post->id;
$postViews->slug = $post->slug;
$postViews->url = request()->url();
$postViews->session_id = request()->getSession()->getId();
$postViews->user_id = (auth()->check())?auth()->id():null;
$postViews->ip = request()->ip();
$postViews->agent = request()->header('User-Agent');
$postViews->save();
}
}
Now inside the Post model write the following code. This to create the relation between the posts table and the post_views table.
use App\PostView;
public function postView()
{
return $this->hasMany(PostView::class);
}
In the same Post model you should put the following code. If the user is not logged in the the code will test the IP match. Otherwise, it will test both the session ID and the user ID as each user might have multiple sessions.
public function showPost()
{
if(auth()->id()==null){
return $this->postView()
->where('ip', '=', request()->ip())->exists();
}
return $this->postView()
->where(function($postViewsQuery) { $postViewsQuery
->where('session_id', '=', request()->getSession()->getId())
->orWhere('user_id', '=', (auth()->check()));})->exists();
}
You are ready now to run the migration.
php artisan migrate
When the user ask for the post. The following function should be targeted inside the PostController file:
use App\PostView;
public function show(Post $post)
{
//Some bits from the following query ("category", "user") are made for my own application, but I felt like leaving it for inspiration.
$post = Post::with('category', 'user')->withCount('favorites')->find($post->id);
if($post->showPost()){// this will test if the user viwed the post or not
return $post;
}
$post->increment('views');//I have a separate column for views in the post table. This will increment the views column in the posts table.
PostView::createViewLog($post);
return $post;
}
As I have a separate column for views in the post table. To search the most viewed posts in the last 24 hours you write this code in the controller. Remove paginate if you don't have pagination:
public function mostViwedPosts()
{
return Posts::with('user')->where('created_at','>=', now()->subdays(1))->orderBy('views', 'desc')->latest()->paginate(5);
}
I hope this would help/save someones time.
2020 Update
First of all, thanks a lot "Jean Marcos" for his awesome answer. All credit goes to him, I am just pasting a slightly modified answer combining my knowledge of Laravel as well.
Create a table to save your view records and name it with snake_case plural: post_views
Schema::create("post_views", function(Blueprint $table)
{
$table->engine = "InnoDB";//this is basically optional as you are not using foreign key relationship so you could go with MyISAM as well
$table->increments("id");
//please note to use integer NOT increments as "Jean Marcos' answer" because it will throw error "Incorrect table definition; there can be only one auto column and it must be defined as a key" when running migration.
$table->unsignedInteger("post_id");//note that the Laravel way of defining foreign keys is "table-singular-name_id", so it's preferable to use that
$table->string("titleslug");
$table->string("url");
$table->string("session_id");
$table->unsignedInteger('user_id')->nullable();//here note to make it nullable if your page is accessible publically as well not only by logged in users. Also its more appropriate to have "unsignedInteger" type instead of "string" type as mentioned in Jean Marcos' answer because user_id will save same data as id field of users table which in most cases will be an auto incremented id.
$table->string("ip");
$table->string("agent");
$table->timestamps();
});
Then, create the corresponding model. Please note to create "PascalCase" model name and singular form of the table so it should be like: PostView
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class PostView extends Model
{
public static function createViewLog($post) {
$postViews= new PostView();
$postViews->listing_id = $post->id;
$postViews->url = \Request::url();
$postViews->session_id = \Request::getSession()->getId();
$postViews->user_id = (\Auth::check())?\Auth::id():null; //this check will either put the user id or null, no need to use \Auth()->user()->id as we have an inbuild function to get auth id
$postViews->ip = \Request::getClientIp();
$postViews->agent = \Request::header('User-Agent');
$postViews->save();//please note to save it at lease, very important
}
}
Then run the migration to generate this table
php artisan migrate
Finally, your method:
public function showpost($titleslug)
{
$post = PostView::where('titleslug', '=' ,$titleslug)->firstOrFail();
\App\PostView::createViewLog($post);//or add `use App\PostView;` in beginning of the file in order to use only `PostView` here
//Rest of method...
}
To search the most viewed posts in the last 24 hours:
$posts = Posts::join("post_views", "post_views.id_post", "=", "posts.id")
->where("created_at", ">=", date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime('-24 hours', time())))
->groupBy("posts.id")
->orderBy(DB::raw('COUNT(posts.id)'), 'desc')//here its very minute mistake of a paranthesis in Jean Marcos' answer, which results ASC ordering instead of DESC so be careful with this line
->get([DB::raw('COUNT(posts.id) as total_views'), 'posts.*']);
Note that in PostView, you have data that can help further filter your listing, such as the session id, in case you do not want to consider hits from the same session.
You may need to adapt some aspects of this solution to your final code.
So those were few modifications I wanted to point out, also you might want to put an additional column client_internet_ip in which you can store \Request::ip() which can be used as a filter as well if required.
I hope it helps
Eloquent Viewable package can be used for this purpose. It provides more flexible ways to do stuff like this(counting page views).
Note:The Eloquent Viewable package requires PHP 7+ and Laravel 5.5+.
Make Model viewable:
Just add the Viewable trait to the model definition like:
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use CyrildeWit\EloquentViewable\Viewable;
class Post extends Model
{
use Viewable;
// ...
}
Then in the controller:
public function show(Post $post)
{
$post->addView();
return view('blog.post', compact('post'));
}
After that you can do stuff like this:(see package installation guide for more details)
// Get the total number of views
$post->getViews();
// Get the total number of views since the given date
$post->getViews(Period::since(Carbon::parse('2014-02-23 00:00:00')));
// Get the total number of views between the given date range
$post->getViews(Period::create(Carbon::parse('2014-00-00 00:00:00'), Carbon::parse('2016-00-00 00:00:00')));
// Get the total number of views in the past 6 weeks (from today)
$post->getViews(Period::pastWeeks(6));
// Get the total number of views in the past 2 hours (from now)
$post->getViews(Period::subHours(2));
// Store a new view in the database
$post->addView();
Implements same kind of idea as in the accepted answer, but provides more features and flexibilities.
First of all thanks to user33192 for sharing the eloquent viewable. Just want to make it clearer for others after looking at the docs. Look at the docs to install the package.
Do this in your Post Model:
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use CyrildeWit\EloquentViewable\InteractsWithViews;
use CyrildeWit\EloquentViewable\Viewable;
class Post extends Model implements Viewable
{
use InteractsWithViews;
// ...
}
In your posts controller, use the record method to save a view;
public function show($slug)
{
$post = Post::where('slug',$slug)->first();
views($post)->record();
return view('posts.show',compact('post'));
}
In your views you can return the views (mine is posts.show) as you want. Check the document for more. I will just the total views of a post.
<button class="btn btn-primary">
{{ views($post)->count() }} <i class="fa fa-eye"></i>
</button>