Laravel - Eloquent Joins - laravel

Question

I'm just starting to learn laravel and its orm system, Eloquent. I'm not sure how to correctly join tables with it though. I have 3 models: User, Account, AccountType and I don't know how to join Account with Accounttype.
Account Model Class:
public function accounttype(){
return $this->hasOne('AccountType');
}
This is to pass accounts information to view:
$accounts = User::find(Auth::user()->id)->accounts;
$accounts->load('accounttype');
return View::make('accounts.accounts')->with('accounts', $accounts);
That will give the following error:
SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'accounttypes.account_id' in 'where clause' (SQL: select * from accounttypes where accounttypes.account_id in (1, 2, 3))
It should be pulling by id in the accounttypes table not account_id. I can list the user accounts just fine, I just don't know how to join the accounttypes table to the account table.
Database Tables:
Users
id
username
password
timestamps(updated_at / created_at)
Accounts
id
name
user_id
accounttype_id
timestamps
AccountTypes
id
name
Each user can have more than one account and each account will have an account type.

Answer 1

In User model:
public function accounts()
{
return $this->hasMany('Account');
}
In Account model:
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('User');
}
public function accountType()
{
return $this->belongsTo('AccountType', 'accounttype_id', 'id');
}
In AccountType model:
public function accounts()
{
return $this->hasMany('Account', 'accounttype_id', 'id');
}
Then in your Controller:
// This will return a user with all accounts ($user->accounts will be collection)
$user = User::with('accounts')->find(Auth::user()->id);
Or:
$user = User::with('accounts.accountType')->find(Auth::user()->id);
// You may pass the $user as well and then loop the $user->accounts in view
return View::make('accounts.accounts')->with('accounts', $user->accounts);
In your view you may loop to get all accounts like:
#foreach($accounts as $account)
{{ $account->name }}
{{ $account->accountType->name }}
#endforeach
Since $user->accounts is a collection so you may either run a loop or specifically get an account using something like this:
{{ $accounts->first()->name }}; // Get first one's name
{{ $accounts->get(0)->name }}; // Get first one's name
{{ $accounts->get(1)->name }}; // Get second one's name
{{ $accounts->last()->name }}; // Get last one's name
if you pass the $user instead of $accounts like this:
return View::make('accounts.accounts')->with('user', $user);
Then change the loop as well, like this:
#foreach($user->accounts as $account)
{{ $account->name }}
{{ $account->accountType->name }}
#endforeach
You can make sure if that user has accounts in the view before you start the loop, like:
#if($user->accounts->count())
// Loop Here
#endif