How to sort by a field of the pivot table of a many-to-many relationship in Eloquent ORM

Question

I have been using Eloquent ORM for some time now and I know it quite well, but I can\'t do the following, while it\'s very easy to do in Fluent.

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Answer 1

Any method that's available in Fluent should also be available with Eloquent. Perhaps this is what you're looking for?

$songs = Song->join('song_user', 'songs.id', '=', 'song_user.song_id')
->where('song_user.user_id', '=', $user->id)
->orderBy("song_user.play_count", "desc")
->get();