How to order by pivot table data in Laravel's Eloquent ORM

Question

In my Database, I have:

• tops Table
• posts Table
• tops_has_posts Table.

When I retrieve a

Answer 1

In Laravel 5.6+ (not sure about older versions) it's convenient to use this:

public function articles()
{
  return $this->belongsToMany('Article', 'tops_has_posts')->withPivot('range')->orderBy('tops_has_posts.range');
}

In this case, whenever you will call articles, they will be sorted automaticaly by range property.