Laravel join use to get one to many relations? - mysql

Question

Is there any way to get relational data ( one to many relation records ) using joins in laravel without creating different records in collection :
Example:
$orders = DB::table('orders')
->join('users', 'users.id', '=', 'orders.users_id')
->join('order_items', 'order_items.order_id', '=', 'orders.id')
->select('users.*', 'order_items.*')
->get();
So here what's happening is that its creating 6 records if order has 6 items but i want something like single records in which it has array or collection where are order items are listed.
Output I want is generally of this order:
Collection {# ▼
#items: array:[▼
0 => {
+'id':1,
...,
+ 'items: [
//here i want all the records of relation order items
]
}
]
}
Is there any way to achieve this result without using with() or load() and just only with joins or raw queries?

Answer 1

You should try this:
$orders = DB::table('orders')
->select('users.*', 'order_items.*')
->leftJoin('users', 'users.id', '=', 'orders.users_id')
->leftJoin('order_items', 'order_items.order_id', '=', 'orders.id')
->get();

Answer 2

This answer is speculative, but perhaps you want to report a single row for each user, with a CSV list of order items:
$orders = DB::table('orders AS o')
->join('users AS u', 'u.id', '=', 'o.users_id')
->join('order_items AS oi', 'oi.order_id', '=', 'o.id')
->select('u.id', DB::raw('GROUP_CONCAT(oi.name) AS orders'))
->groupBy('u.id')
->get();

Answer 3

If there's no reason stopping you from using the Eloquent, is the best way for working with databases.
The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides a beautiful, simple
ActiveRecord implementation for working with your database
Here is the Documentation Eloquent: Getting Started
The model relationship made easy in laravel, you can get you want as following:
The User model relationships:
//user orders
public function orders() {
return $this->hasMany('App\Order');
}
The Order model relationships:
//order items
public function items() {
return $this->hasMany('App\OrderItem');
}
//order owner
public function user() {
return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
}
The OrderItem model relationships:
//order
public function order() {
return $this->belongsTo('App\Order');
}
Here is a quick example of how you may get the order's items
$orders = User::find($id)->orders
foreach($orders as $order) {
$orderItems = $order->items;
}
you can make the collection the way you prefer, but strongly recommend using Eloquent Resources, since most apps these days expecting JSON responses.