retrive data (count , etc(user data ) ) from pivot table laravel - mysql

Question

I have the below tables and I want to retrieve the number of each comment likes with users that liked the comment (something like Instagram comment which any body can like another user comments)
users table
id
name
Asks table
id
title
comments table
id
ask_id
user_id
text
comment_like table
id
comment_id
user_id
it used for saving comment links, it looks like Instagram comment which any user can like another user comment.
here is my User Model Code:
class User extends Authenticatable
{
public function comments_like()
{
return $this->belongsToMany(
Comment::class,
'comment_like' ,
'user_id' ,
'comment_id' ,
'id',
'id'
);
}
public function comments()
{
return $this->hasMany(Comment::class);
}
}
here is my Ask Model Code:
class Ask extends Model
{
use HasFactory;
protected $table = 'asks';
protected $fillable = ['title'];
public function comments()
{
return $this->hasMany(Comment::class);
}
}
here is my User Model Code:
class User extends Authenticatable
{
public function comments_like()
{
return $this->belongsToMany(
Comment::class,
'comment_like' ,
'user_id' ,
'comment_id' ,
'id',
'id'
);
}
public function comments()
{
return $this->hasMany(Comment::class);
}
}
here is my Comment Model Code:
class Comment extends Model
{
//user relation
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
}
//ask relation
public function ask()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Ask::class);
}
//comment_like relation
public function users_like ()
{
return $this->belongsToMany(
User::class ,
'comment_like',
'comment_id',
'user_id',
'id',
'id'
)
->withTimestamps();
}
//condition on comment_like relation
public function user_like_byId($id)
{
return $this->belongsToMany(
User::class ,
'comment_like',
'comment_id',
'user_id',
'id',
'id'
)
->where('id',$id)->get();
}
}
I want to retrieve latest ask with their comments which include count and data of comment_like**
I used this code but it show error
$ask= Ask::query()->latest('id')->get()->first();
foreach ($ask->comments()->get() as $commentItem) {
echo "id: ".$commentItem->id .'<br>';
echo "name :" .$commentItem->user()->pluck('name')[0] . "<br>";
echo "text :" .$commentItem->text . "<br>";
echo $commentItem->user_like_byId($commentItem->id);
}

Answer 1

You can create a resource with php artisan make:resource AskResource for your fetched data and use count() function for get length of data.