I'm having issues getting a proper count total with my Laravel model.
Model Structure
A user can have multiple Items, and each of these Items can have multiple ItemLikes (when a user 'likes' the item).
I can easily get the individual ItemLike counts when using an Item model:
return $this->itemLikes()->count();
But I can't figure out how to get the total # of ItemLike's a User has across all the Item's he owns.
EXAMPLE
User A has 3 Items. Each Item has 5 ItemLike's, for a grand total of 15.
I tried using eager loading on the User model like this:
return $this->items()->with('itemlikes')->get()->count();
But that returns 3 (the # of Items)
These are the queries it ran, which appears like the second query is the one I want, yet every way I try it I still get 3 instead of 15
select * from `items` where `items`.`user_id` = '1000'
select * from `item_likes` where `item_likes`.`item_id` in ('1000', '1001', '1002')
Isn't it just a case of creating a method that would return the number of items for the model. e.g.:
#UserModel
public function nbLikes()
{
$nbLikes = 0;
foreach($this->items() as $item) {
$nbLikes += $item->itemLikes()->count();
}
return $nbLikes;
}
And then User::nbLikes() should return the piece of data you are looking for?
try this: $query="select count(il.id) from item_likes il,item itm where il.item_id=itm.id and tm.user_id=1000";
After suggestions from others I found 2 solutions to get the result.
Using whereIn:
$itemViewCount = ItemView::
whereIn('item_views.item_id', $this->items()->lists('id'))
->count();
return $itemViewCount;
2 queries for a total of 410μs
Using join:
$itemViewCount = $this->items()
->join('item_views', 'item_views.item_id', '=', 'items.id')
->count();
return $itemViewCount;
2 queries for a total of 600μs