Laravel Eloquent to join table and count related

Question

How do I use join with Eloquent taking in consideration the following table structure:

I have a properies table

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ID    | Name 
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Answer 1

Define the relationship on your Property model class:

<?php 

namespace App\Models;

class Property extends Model {
  public function rooms() {
    return $this->hasMany(Room::class);
  }
}

$properties = Property::withCount(['rooms'])->get();

This will add a rooms_count to the result.

Answer 2

This is more of a MySQL join+group+select trick which includes following steps.

1. Join your relation table(use join if you want to exclude rows with RoomsCount=0, else use leftJoin)
2. Use groupBy by primaryKey to avoid duplicates of the join.
3. Select count of joined table

    $this->model->leftJoin('Rooms', 'Properties.ID', '=', 'Rooms.Property')
      ->selectRaw('Properties.*, count(Rooms.RoomID) as RoomsCount')
      ->groupBy('Properties.ID')
      ->get();