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

I am sure somebody is still going through this, I was able to solve it the following way, suppose I have an Agent model and a Schedule model, i.e. one agent may have many schedules:

class Schedule extends Model {
  public function agent() {
    return $this->belongsTo(Agent::class, 'agent_id');
  }
}

class Agent extends Model {
  public function user(){
    return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
  }

  public function schedules(){
    return $this->hasMany(Schedule::class);
  }
}

Well some agents may not necessarily have schedules assigned, thus, I filtered those before calling the with() method, like this:

$agents = Agents::whereIn(
    'id', 
    Schedule::distinct()->pluck('agent_id')
)->with('schedules')->get();

Hope this helps!.