Many to Many with additional table in L4 - laravel

Question

I have a schema like that:
And now I want to use it in Laravel 4. So far, I could only achieve getting games for certain user, without touching owntype. Code:
public function games() {
return $this->belongsToMany('Game','games_users','owntype_id','games_id')->where('user_id','1');
}
The only thing I'm getting is onwtype_id. How can I add owntype table to the "equasion"?

Answer 1

You can access extra pivot table columns by specifying them through the withPivot function on the relationship function.
Basically I think you want to do this:
class User extends Eloquent {
public function games()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('Game', 'games_users')->withPivot('owntype_id');
}
}
class Game extends Eloquent {
public function users()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('User', 'games_users')->withPivot('owntype_id');
}
}
class Owntype extends Eloquent {
protected $table = 'owntype';
}
// Now you can do:
foreach ($user->games as $game)
{
// Echo each Owntype description.
echo Owntype::find($game->pivot->owntype_id)->description;
}
For the record... I think you might be taking it too far by creating a new table for owntype. Just set the description as a type column on the pivot table. Also make sure that your pivot table is named game_user (singular, alphabetically) and Laravel will know which pivot table to use automatically.
class User extends Eloquent {
public function games()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('Game')->withPivot('type');
}
}
class Game extends Eloquent {
public function users()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('User')->withPivot('type');
}
}
// Now you can do:
foreach ($user->games as $game)
{
// Echo each ownership type.
echo $game->pivot->type;
}
Some more info about working with pivot tables can be founded in the Laravel 4 docs.