Joining Two Tables to a Reference Table Laravel - mysql

Question

I Have three tables
#1 Table timeline which is my reference table with an Auto incremented ID which is stored in column id
#2 timeline_videos
#3 timeline_else
What happens is on post if a video is uploaded with the post
it will go into Table #2 ,anything else goes into Table #3.
#2-3 have the Auto Increment Id from the Table timeline stored in a column pid
On query of The Timeline I need to join both tables data using id=pid
so I can use the rest of the Relational Data with the post.
I have done a bit of research and can't seem to find a method for doing so.
So far the code I have
Controller
$groupposts = timeline::where([
['owner','=',$owner],['id','<',$lastid],
])
->join('timeline_videos','timeline.id','=','timeline_videos.pid')
//->join('timeline_else','timeline.id','=','timeline_else.pid')
->orderBy('id','desc')
->limit(5)
->get();
This works with no errors with the second Join commented out but I need to also grab the timeline_else data .
Update --
I have now decided to use Eloquent Relationships to join the tables,
my question now is what type of relationship do I have between the
tables?
I realize it basically needs to be able to switch between two tables to
grab data based on the fact that timeline_videos and timeline_else will not be "JOIN" but separated by type .
The tables need to Join with table #1 timeline based on a column I now have named type for clarifying where to look and matching/joining using the id = pid

Answer 1

You can use relationships.
it sounds like timelines has many videos and has many video failures
https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/eloquent-relationships#one-to-many
you would have a model for each table and set up the relationships
timelines model:
public function videos()
{
return $this-> hasMany('App\Videos');
}
public function videoFailures()
{
return $this-> hasMany('App\videoFailures');
}
videos model:
public function timeline()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Timelines');
}
videos failures model:
public function timeline()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Timelines');
}
You can then go:
$timeLine = Timmeline::find($id);
to find videos of the time lines you would do:
$videos = $timeLine->videos();
to find else:
$videoElse = $timeLine-> videoFailures();

Answer 2

By using some of what Parker Dell supplied and a bit more trial and error
My Models Looks like
timeline
class timeline extends Model
{
protected $table ='timeline';
public $timestamps = false;
public function videos()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\timeline_videos','pid','id');
}
public function else()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\timeline_ect','pid','id');
}
}
timeline_ect.php ,I changed the name of the table
class timeline_ect extends Model
{
protected $table='timeline_ect';
public $timestamps = false;
public function timeline()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\timeline','pid','id');
}
}
timeline_videos
class timeline_videos extends Model
{
protected $table='timeline_videos';
public $timestamps = false;
public function timeline()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\timeline','id','pid');
}
}
Then Lastly my Controller
$timeline = timeline::with('videos','else')
->orderBy('id','desc')
->limit(5)
->get();
So far no Problem query is correct.