Laravel Eloquent with and find

Question

Why is this not working?

Article::with(\'category\')->find($ids)

I got a Array to String Conversion Exception.

But if i split t

Answer 1

Try:

Article::with('category')->get()->find($ids);

You need to get the articles first before you can call find() I believe.

Warning: This retrieves every single article from the database and loads them all into memory, and then selects just one from all that data and returns it. That is probably not how you would want to handle this problem.

Answer 2

Create object and set his properties with relationships

for example, code in your Controller or Service

$article = new Article;
$article = $article->find($id);

$result->article = $article;
$result->article->category = $article->category;

return response()->json($result);

Code in your Model

public function category() {
    return $this->hasOne('App\Category');
}

Answer 3

Just for the posterity... other way you can do this is:

Article::with('category')->whereIn('id', $ids)->get();

This should be better (more performant), because it's leaving the query to the database manager

Answer 4

This will give you the results based on an array of IDs in Laravel 4

Article::whereIn('id', $ids)->with('category')->get();