Laravel eloquent get relation count

Question

I use Laravel 5.3.

I have 2 tables :

Articles
---------
id
cat_id
title

And

Category
---------
id
parent_id
title
         


        

Answer 1

you can use withCount(). It is available from 5.3 version

for more info about eloquent visit : https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/eloquent-relationships