how to order a JSON response based on database relationship using eloquent

Question

I\'m quite new to Laravel and I\'m trying to figure out how to properly work with Eloquent so far so good, but I\'m stuck in something I want to do:

I have 3 tables in a

Answer 1

Based on the picture(ie your tables) you sent food_group does not have direct relationship with the portions so you can't chain food_group with portion like this

  App\FoodGroup::with('portion.foods')

it should rather be (that is why you getting BadMethodCallException in Builder::portions())

 App\FoodGroup::with('foods.portion')

because foodgroup has many foods and foods has many portion. so you can try something like this

App\FoodGroup::with(['foods.portion'=>function($q){
   $q->orderBy('id')
}])->get();