Laravel Eloquent ManyToMany getLatest - mysql

Question

I built up a pivot table containing ids of tables I want to associate. When I have the id of a specific item, I now want to get the latest entry of this item saved in the pivot table. For example:
Table 1: Tickets
Table 2: Status
Table 3: Ticket_Status (Pivot)
If I add a new entry to the pivot table, I would have something like this:
Pivot
ticketId, statusId
1, 2
1, 3
2, 1
Now I want to receive the latest status in the pivot for Ticket Id 1 for example, so I expect to receive statusId 3 for ticket 1. But how do I do this in Laravel?
Creating the entries for the pivot table works:
public function attachDispatchStatus($id) {
$this->status()->attach($id);
$this->touch();
}
// set fields on the eloquent object and save to database
// raise event that the incident was created.
public function createDispatch($command) {
// Get BodyContent from POST Request
$this->dispatchReference = $command->dispatchReference;
$this->incidentReference = $command->incidentReference;
// Create new Dispatch
$dispatch = Dispatch::create(array(
'dispatch_reference' => $this->dispatchReference,
'incident_reference' => $this->incidentReference
));
$dispatchStatus = DispatchStatus::where('status', '=', 'processing')->first();
$dispatch->attachDispatchStatus($dispatchStatus->id);
return $this;
}

Answer 1

Why don't you use the updateExistingPivot($roleId, $attributes); available in Laravel 5 when editing your tickets ?
This will solve your problem and make your database lighter :)
Check Larvel Doc for some examples on pivot table.
If you don't want to make it like that (because you want to keep an historic of your input), I think you will have to add an dateTime field in your pivot table... Then, just order by date, and you will be fine.