I have 3 tables: posts
, votes
and users
. I have written a neat code with Eloquent to retrieve just the posts where the user has not voted yet on.
$posts = Post::whereDoesntHave("votes")
->where('user_id', '=', $user_id)
->whereBetween('posts.created_at', array(Carbon::now()->subHours(48), Carbon::now()))
->take(20)
->get();
return response()->json(['posts' => $posts])->withCallback($request->input('callback'));
But also I want to retrieve user name from table users. I want to pass the data with json.
If I try to do it with query builder, it is hard to eliminate posts that have been voted already by the user.
You can do a join manually to the user table
$posts = Post::join('users', 'users.id', '=', 'posts.user_id')
->whereDoesntHave("votes")
->where('user_id', '=', $user_id)
->whereBetween('posts.created_at', array(Carbon::now()->subHours(48), Carbon::now()))
->take(20)
->get();
Or you could define a relationship in the Post
model class.
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
}
Then you use with('user')
to retrieve data from user table.
$posts = Post::with('user')
->whereDoesntHave("votes")
->where('user_id', '=', $user_id)
->whereBetween('posts.created_at', array(Carbon::now()->subHours(48), Carbon::now()))
->take(20)
->get();