Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

Eloquent relationships

In the Model layer, especially when inheriting from ORM, there are 2 important things:

• We should have Models so we can access data through them
• We should specify relationships so we can utilize ORM's full capabilities

For just accessing data without writing a query, we can use Query Builder as well. But, relationships advantage is that it comes only with ORM usage. So, let's specify all of the models' relationships.

First of all, let's specify User's relationships. As the user can have many posts and the user can have many comments, the User model will have the hasMany relationship with both Post and Comment models. This is what the User model will look like after specifying the relationship:

<?phpnamespace App;