How to join three table by laravel eloquent model

Question

I have three table

Articles table

 id
 title
 body
 categories_id
 user_id

Categories table

  id
  category         


        

Answer 1

Try:

$articles = DB::table('articles')
            ->select('articles.id as articles_id', ..... )
            ->join('categories', 'articles.categories_id', '=', 'categories.id')
            ->join('users', 'articles.user_id', '=', 'user.id')

            ->get();