laravel search many to many Relashionship - laravel

Question

I am testing eloquent for the first time and I want to see if it suit my application.
I have Product table:
id, name
and model:
class Produit extends Eloquent {
public function eavs()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('Eav')
->withPivot('value_int', 'value_varchar', 'value_date');
}
}
and eav table:
id, name, code, field_type
and pivot table:
product_id, eav_id, value_int, value_varchar, value_date
class Eav extends Eloquent {
public function produitTypes()
{
return $this->belongsToMany(
'ProduitType'
->withPivot('cs_attributs_produits_types_required');
}
All this is working.
But I want to search in that relashionship:
e.g: all product that have eav_id=3 and value_int=3
I have tested this:
$produits = Produit::with( array('eavs' => function($query)
{
$query->where('id', '3')->where('value_int', '3');
}))->get();
But I get all the product, and eav data only for these who have id=3 and value_int=3.
I want to get only the product that match this search...
Thank you

Answer 1

I know the question is very old. But added the answer that works in the latest versions of Laravel.
In Laravel 6.x+ versions you can use whereHas method.
So your query will look like this:
Produit::whereHas('eavs', function (Builder $query) {
// Query the pivot table
$query->where('eav_id', 3);
})->get()

Answer 2

My suggestion and something I like to follow is to start with what you know. In this case, we know the eav_id, so let's go from there.
$produits = Eav::find(3)->produits()->where('value_int', '3')->get();
Eager loading in this case isn't going to save you any performance because we are cutting down the 1+n query problem as described in the documentation because we are starting off with using find(). It's also going to be a lot easier to read and understand.
Using query builder for checking multiple eavs
$produits = DB::table('produits')
->join('eav_produit', 'eav_produit.produit_id', '=', 'produits.id')
->join('eavs', 'eavs.id', '=', 'eav_produit.eav_id')
->where(function($query)
{
$query->where('eav_produit.value_int','=','3');
$query->where('eavs.id', '=', '3');
})
->orWhere(function($query)
{
$query->where('eav_produit.value_int','=','1');
$query->where('eavs.id', '=', '1');
})
->select('produits.*')
->get();
Making it work with what you already have...
$produits = Produit::with( array('eavs' => function($query)
{
$query->where('id', '3')->where('value_int', '3');
$query->orWhere('id', '1')->where('value_int', '1');
}))->get();
foreach($produits as $produit)
{
if(!produit->eavs)
continue;
// Do stuff
}

Answer 3

From http://four.laravel.com/docs/eloquent:
When accessing the records for a model, you may wish to limit your results based on the existence of a relationship. For example, you wish to pull all blog posts that have at least one comment. To do so, you may use the has method
$posts = Post::has('comments')->get();
Using the "has()" method should give you an array with only products that have EAV that match your criteria.
$produits = Produit::with( array('eavs' => function($query)
{
$query->where('id', '3')->where('value_int', '3');
}))->has('eavs')->get();