Laravel's pivot table + Pivot table in general

Question

What are laravel pivot tables and pivot tables in general? What is this all about?

Recently I made research about Pivot table. I thought I know them and What they are bu

Answer 1

Keep this in mind

Pivot table — is a table used for connecting relationships between two tables.

Laravel part — laravel provides many-to-many relationship where you can use pivot table, and it is very useful for many cases.

Example:
databases: users, post_user, posts

User.php (Model)

class User extends Model{

  public function posts(){
     return $this->belongsToMany('Post');
  }

}

Now, to access the all logged in user's posts: (view)

@foreach(auth()->user()->posts as $post)
  
{{ $post->name }}
@endforeach

Relationship happened:

Remember we have post_user table which is the pivot table we used. If we have:

user_id of 1 and we expect that it is the logged in user and post_id of 1, 2, 3, 4, all this posts will be printed out like so:

|------------|--------------|
|  post_id   |   user_id    |
|------------|--------------|
|  1         |    1         |
|  2         |    1         |
|  3         |    1         |
|  4         |    1         |
|------------|--------------|

Output:

• PostName1
• PostName2
• PostName3
• PostName4