Laravel OrderBy relationship count

Question

I\'m trying to get the most popular hackathons which requires ordering by the respective hackathon\'s partipants->count(). Sorry if that\'s a little difficul

Answer 1

I had similar issue and using sortBy() is not suitable because of pagination, exactly as Sabrina Gelbart commented in previous solution. So I used db raw, here's simplified query:

Tag::select( 
array(
    '*',
    DB::raw('(SELECT count(*) FROM link_tag WHERE tag_id = id) as count_links')) 
)->with('links')->orderBy('count_links','desc')->paginate(5);