The laravel-extended-relationships package provides additional, more efficient relationship methods for Laravel Eloquent models. The package offers several useful features such as reducing the number of database queries, improving performance, and minimizing duplicate code.
I faced issue and made my own relationships then realize if I can use packages from open source then I can make one too and made this package.
You can install the package via composer:
composer require mr-punyapal/laravel-extended-relationshipsFirst, include the HasExtendedRelationships trait in your model:
use Mrpunyapal\LaravelExtendedRelationships\HasExtendedRelationships;
class Post extends Model {
use HasExtendedRelationships;
//...
}Next, define the BelongsToManyKeys relationship with the belongsToManyKeys method:
public function auditors() {
return $this->belongsToManyKeys(
related: User::class,
foreignKey: 'id',
relations: [
'created_by' => 'creator',
'updated_by' => 'updater',
'deleted_by' => 'deleter',
]
);
}- The related model (
User::class) - The foreign key (
id) - An array mapping the related table's foreign key names to the corresponding relation names on the model (
['created_by' => 'creator', ...])
$post = Post::with('auditors')->first();
// Get the creator
$post->auditors->creator;
// Get the updater
$post->auditors->updater;
// Get the deleter
$post->auditors->deleter;
// also works with lazy loading
$post = Post::find(7);
// Get the creator
$post->auditors->creator;
// Get the updater
$post->auditors->updater;
// Get the deleter
$post->auditors->deleter;This allows you to define multiple relationships with just one method, and only a single query is fired in the database for all the relationships.
use Mrpunyapal\LaravelExtendedRelationships\HasExtendedRelationships;
class User extends Model{
use HasExtendedRelationships;
public function audited(){
return $this->hasManyKeys(
related: Post::class,
relations: [
'created_by' => 'created',
'updated_by' => 'updated',
'deleted_by' => 'deleted',
],
localKey: 'id'
);
}
}To retrieve the audited posts of a user, you can use the audited relationship. Here's an example:
$user = User::with('audited')->first();
// Get posts created by the user
$user->audited->created;
// Get posts updated by the user
$user->audited->updated;
// Get posts deleted by the user
$user->audited->deleted;
// also works with lazy loading
$user = User::find(71);
// Get posts created by the user
$user->audited->created;
// Get posts updated by the user
$user->audited->updated;
// Get posts deleted by the user
$user->audited->deleted;This allows you to define multiple relationships between models with a single method call, simplifying your code and reducing the number of queries executed.
If you have a column companies in your users table which stores an array of local keys like [7, 71] or ["7", "71"], you can use the following relationship:
use Mrpunyapal\LaravelExtendedRelationships\HasExtendedRelationships;
class User extends Model
{
use HasExtendedRelationships;
protected $casts=[
'companies' => 'array'
];
public function myCompanies()
{
return $this->hasManyArrayColumn(
related: Company::class,
foreignKey: 'id',
localKey: 'companies'
);
}
}When fetching data, you can retrieve the related companies with:
$user = User::with('myCompanies')->first();
// get companies with ids 7 and 71
$user->myCompanies;This allows you to easily retrieve related records with an array of local keys, which can be useful in certain scenarios.
The BelongsToArrayColumn method allows you to define a relationship between a model and an array column on another model.
if you have ["7", "71"] in array column and int 7 or 71 at your foreign-key then pass $isString flag as true to get expected results.
Here's an example:
use Mrpunyapal\LaravelExtendedRelationships\HasExtendedRelationships;
class Company extends Model
{
use HasExtendedRelationships;
public function companyFounders()
{
return $this->belongsToArrayColumn(
related: User::class,
foreignKey: 'id',
localKey: 'companies',
// optional, default is false (if true then it treats all values as string)
isString: true
);
}
}With this relationship defined, you can fetch related company founders with the following code:
$company = Company::with('companyFounders')->find(71);
// Founders for company with id 71
$company->companyFounders;This will provide you with data from the users table where the companies array column contains the value 71.
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