Laravel Eloquent ORM relationship query - laravel

Question

I need help, I have a problem with querying Model Relationships.
I actually know and get the job done using the query method but I'd like to know the "laravel way" of querying relationships.
Here's what's on my controller.
//HealthProfile Controller
//$id value is 2
$health_profiles = User::find($id)->with('health_profiles')->first();
problem is that the return for the query is the records for id = 1 and not id = 2. It basically ignored the "find" method. I just want to get the health profiles for a specific user_id.
[id] => 1
[firstname] => patrick
[lastname] => marino
[email] => patrick#gmail.com
[membership_code] => starpatrick
[birthdate] => 1989-05-17
[contact_number] => 1230123
[active] => 1
[created_at] => 2014-07-01 16:10:05
[updated_at] => 2014-07-01 16:10:05
[remember_token] =>
[health_profiles] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 1
[user_id] => 1
[parent_id] =>
[name] => patrick star
[relationship] =>
[gender] => male
[birthdate] => 1989-05-17
[marital_status] =>
[number_of_children] =>
[weigth] =>
[height] =>
[blood_type] =>
[blood_pressure] =>
[hdl] =>
[ldl] =>
[vldl] =>
[visual_activity] =>
[lifestyle] =>
[current_bmi] =>
[weight_goal] =>
[weekly_goal] =>
[rdc] =>
[created_at] => 2014-07-01 16:10:05
[updated_at] => 2014-07-01 16:10:05
)
This is my schema
//User model
public function health_profiles()
{
return $this->hasMany('HealthProfile');
}
//HealthProfile model
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('User', 'user_id', 'id');
}

Answer 1

First a few words of explanation:
find($id) already runs the query (it uses where(id, $id)->first() under the hood) so place it at the end, because now you unwittingly did this:
User::find($id);
User::with('health_profiles')->first();
Another problem is, like you already noticed, that Eloquent won't work with this setup:
public function health_profiles() ...
$user = User::find($id);
$user->health_profiles; // null
because when loading dynamic properties (relations) it looks for camelCased method on the model.
However eager loading will work as expected:
$user = User::with('health_profiles')->find($id);
$user->health_profiles; // related model/collection
So you definitely should comply with the naming conventions if you want Eloquent to be your friend ;)
But that's not all. It will work the other way around:
public function healthProfiles() ...
$user = User::find($id);
$user->healthProfiles; // works, returns related model/collection
$user->health_profiles; // works as well, returns the model/collection
To sum up and answer your question, each of those will work for you:
// Assuming Profile is the model
// 2 queries
$user = User::find($id);
$profiles = $user->healthProfiles;
// or 1 query
$profiles = Profile::where('user_id', $id)->get();
// or 2 queries: 1 + 1 subquery
$profiles = Profile::whereHas('user', function ($q) use ($id) {
$q->where('users.id', $id);
})->get();

Answer 2

You can try putting the with before the find so that the builder knows to eager load that relationship on what you are trying to find.
$user = User::with('health_profiles')->find($user_id);
$health_profiles = $user->health_profiles;

Answer 3

Try this
User::with('health_profiles')->find($id);
I don't think you need to call the first method because find as it's stated will only find the one row of data that you need.

Answer 4

I've found the culprit. L4 has problems with snake cased methods! I changed it to camelCase and it worked.
$lawly = User::where('id', '=', 2)->first();
$lawly->healthProfiles->toArray()
src: https://coderwall.com/p/xjomzg