How to access model hasMany Relation with where condition?

Question

I created a model Game using a condition / constraint for a relation as follows:

class Game extends Eloquent {
             


        

Answer 1

I think this is what you're looking for (Laravel 4, see http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#querying-relations)

$games = Game::whereHas('video', function($q)
{
    $q->where('available','=', 1);

})->get();

Answer 2

//lower for v4 some version

public function videos() {
    $instance =$this->hasMany('Video');
    $instance->getQuery()->where('available','=', 1);
    return $instance
}

//v5

public function videos() {
    return $this->hasMany('Video')->where('available','=', 1);
}

Answer 3

If you want to apply condition on the relational table you may use other solutions as well.. This solution is working from my end.

public static function getAllAvailableVideos() {
        $result = self::with(['videos' => function($q) {
                        $q->select('id', 'name');
                        $q->where('available', '=', 1);
                    }])                    
                ->get();
        return $result;
    }

Answer 4

I have fixed the similar issue by passing associative array as the first argument inside Builder::with method.

Imagine you want to include child relations by some dynamic parameters but don't want to filter parent results.

Model.php

public function child ()
{
    return $this->hasMany(ChildModel::class);
}

Then, in other place, when your logic is placed you can do something like filtering relation by HasMany class. For example (very similar to my case):

$search = 'Some search string';
$result = Model::query()->with(
    [
        'child' => function (HasMany $query) use ($search) {
            $query->where('name', 'like', "%{$search}%");
        }
    ]
);

Then you will filter all the child results but parent models will not filter. Thank you for attention.

Answer 5

Just in case anyone else encounters the same problems.

Note, that relations are required to be camelcase. So in my case available_videos() should have been availableVideos().

You can easily find out investigating the Laravel source:

// Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model.php
...
/**
 * Get an attribute from the model.
 *
 * @param  string  $key
 * @return mixed
 */
public function getAttribute($key)
{
    $inAttributes = array_key_exists($key, $this->attributes);

    // If the key references an attribute, we can just go ahead and return the
    // plain attribute value from the model. This allows every attribute to
    // be dynamically accessed through the _get method without accessors.
    if ($inAttributes || $this->hasGetMutator($key))
    {
        return $this->getAttributeValue($key);
    }

    // If the key already exists in the relationships array, it just means the
    // relationship has already been loaded, so we'll just return it out of
    // here because there is no need to query within the relations twice.
    if (array_key_exists($key, $this->relations))
    {
        return $this->relations[$key];
    }

    // If the "attribute" exists as a method on the model, we will just assume
    // it is a relationship and will load and return results from the query
    // and hydrate the relationship's value on the "relationships" array.
    $camelKey = camel_case($key);

    if (method_exists($this, $camelKey))
    {
        return $this->getRelationshipFromMethod($key, $camelKey);
    }
}

This also explains why my code worked, whenever I loaded the data using the load() method before.

Anyway, my example works perfectly okay now, and $model->availableVideos always returns a Collection.

Answer 6

I think that this is the correct way:

class Game extends Eloquent {
    // many more stuff here

    // relation without any constraints ...works fine 
    public function videos() {
        return $this->hasMany('Video');
    }

    // results in a "problem", se examples below
    public function available_videos() {
        return $this->videos()->where('available','=', 1);
    }
}

And then you'll have to

$game = Game::find(1);
var_dump( $game->available_videos()->get() );