Laravel - Limit each child item efficiently

Question

I have this:

$commentReplies = Comment::whereIn(\'comment_parent_id\', $CommentsIDs)
                                  ->take(2)->get();

Answer 1

You can't use limit/skip when eager loading, for it will limit whole related result.

I suppose you use MySQL, so here is what you need: http://softonsofa.com/tweaking-eloquent-relations-how-to-get-n-related-models-per-parent/

It's way to long to paste here, so just to get the idea: You need MySQL variables to do the job of fetching n per parent for you, like:

public function latestTwoComments()
{
  return $this->hasMany('Comment', 'comment_parent_id')->latest()->nPerGroup('comment_parent_id', 2);
}

//then
$comments = Comment::with('latestTwoComments')->get();
// now all the comments will have at most 2 related child-comments

Note: it's meant for hasMany relation and MySQL