Getting count from pivot table in laravel eloquent

Question

I have a many to many relationship for orders and products.

Answer 1

I am using Laravel 5.1 and i am able to accomplish that by doing this

 $photo->posts->count()

And the posts method in Photo model looks like this

public function posts(){
    return $this->belongsToMany('App\Models\Posts\Post', 'post_photos');
}