I am new to Laravel and building a small Laravel 5.3 app offering free content files as well as files for purchase.
I want users to automatically have access to the free files (content which may be added periodically).
I have a products, purchases (pivot) and users table.
When a user is logged in, how can I query the products table like the following: select all free products (price=0) or join on purchases where users.user_id = purchases.user_id and products.id = purchases.product_id?
Any ideas, or is there a better way to accomplish the same thing?
Thanks
How about if you use following query:
$purchasedProducts = DB::table('purchases')
->join('products', 'products.id', '=', 'purchases.product_id')
->select('purchases.*', 'products.*')
->where([
['purchases.user_id', '=', $loggedinUserId],
['products.price', '=', 0],
])
->get();
If you have defined the relations between user
and product
then you can query it using orWhereHas
as:
Product::where('price', 0)
->orWhereHas('users', function ($q) user($user) {
$q->where('user_id', $user->id);
})
->get();
Assuming your relation name is users
.