Laravel Eloquent - Using pivot table's id as a foreign key in another table

Question

I need to use pivot table\'s id as a foreign key in another table.

for example i have following tables:

users: id, username, ...

places: id, placename,          


        

Answer 1

After lots of searching and trying different solutions I came up with the following solution:

User Model:

class User extends \Eloquent {
    public function places() {
        return $this->hasMany('PlaceUser')->with('Place');
    }
}

Place Model:

class Place extends \Eloquent {
    public function users() {
        return $this->hasMany('PlaceUser')->with('User');
    }
}

PlaceUser Model:

class PlaceUser extends \Eloquent {

    public function user() {
        return $this->belongsTo('User');
    }

    public function place() {
        return $this->belongsTo('Place');
    }

    public function footprints() {
        return $this->hasMany('Footprint');
    }
}

I have Changed name route to footprint to avoid problems with route class included in laravel.

Footprint Model:

class Footprint extends \Eloquent {
    public function place_user()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('PlaceUser');
    }
}

In the end I get structure where I can make different queries like:

// gets all places with corresponding pivot table entries and users table entries    
Place::with('users')->get(); 
// get user with id=1 including corresponding pivot table entries and places table entries
User::with('places')->find(1); 
// get footprint of the user
$user->places->get(0)->footprints 

hope this helps