Laravel Eloquent and Multiple Joins

Question

I understand how to use Eloquent for basic queries and relationships, but I start getting confused when selecting information based on relationships in multiple tables.

Answer 1

//routes.php

 /* relationship is : content has images(one to many). And I am extracting the images based on the name that is given in the search input ($keyword = Input::get('keyword') */


   $dbresults = DB::table('contents')->join('images', 'images.content_id', '=', 'contents.id')->where('contents.Name', 'LIKE', '%' .$keyword. '%')->get();

   return View::make('/results')->with("results", $dbresults);

View

@foreach($results as $result)
{{ $result->image_1 }}
@endforeach

Answer 2

Assuming your relations are correct and related table names are: categories and types, this will do the job:

Product::with('productdetails')
    ->whereHas('categories', function ($query) use ($submenu_id) {
          $query->where('categories.id', '=', $submenu_id);
    })
    ->whereHas('types', function ($query) use ($type_id) {
          $query->where('types.id', $type_id); // side note: operator '=' is default, so can be ommited
    })
    ->get();

It will run 2 queries ( first for getting appropriate products, second for product details related to them) and return Eloquent Collection