Relationships

1. # One to One
2. # Implementation
3. # One To Many
4. # Implementation
5. # Many to Many
6. # Implementation
7. # Saving Many to Many Relationships
8. # Saving Data To Pivot Table
9. # Taxonomy Relationships

Model relationships define how records are related in the database. The main relationship types include: "one to one", "one to many", and "many to many".

#One to One

In a one to one relationship, one record can have only one reference to another record and vice-versa. For example, one Seat can have one Person if you are booking a plane flight.

#Implementation

Take the plane flight example where one Person and have one Seat. For the Person model lets assume there is a table named wp_people with the columns id, name, and email. For the Seat model lets assume there is a table named wp_seats with the columns id, person_id, seat_number, and price. How would you represent the database relationship in your TypeRocket models?

Take a look at the Person model.

<?php
namespace App\Models;

use \TypeRocket\Models\Model;

class Person extends Model
{
    protected $resource = 'people';

    /**
     * Get the seat record associated with the person.
     */
    public function seat()
    {
        return $this->hasOne('\App\Models\Seat', 'person_id');
    }
}

And, look at the Seat model.

<?php
namespace App\Models;

use \TypeRocket\Models\Model;

class Seat extends Model
{
    protected $resource = 'seats';

    /**
     * Get the person record associated with the seat.
     */
    public function person()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('\App\Models\Person', 'person_id');
    }
}

Now, you can access the Seat from the Person using the seat() method. Take a look at the example where $person is an instance of Person.

$seat = $person->findById(1)->seat()->get();

You can also access the Person in a Seat. Take a look at the example where $seat is an instance of Seat.

$seat = $seat->findById(1)->person()->get();

#One To Many

In one to many relationships, one record can have many other related records. For example, one Game can have many a Player in a video game.

#Implementation

Take the video game example where one Game and have many a Player. For the Game model lets assume there is a table named wp_games with the columns id and name. For the Player model lets assume there is a table named wp_players with the columns id, games_id and name. How would you represent the database relationship in your TypeRocket models?

Take a look at the Game model.

<?php
namespace App\Models;

use \TypeRocket\Models\Model;

class Game extends Model
{
    protected $resource = 'games';

    /**
     * Get the player records associated with the game.
     */
    public function players()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('\App\Models\Player', 'games_id');
    }
}

And, look at the Player model.

<?php
namespace App\Models;

use \TypeRocket\Models\Model;

class Player extends Model
{
    protected $resource = 'players';

    /**
     * Get the game record associated with the player.
     */
    public function game()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('\App\Models\Game', 'games_id');
    }
}

Now, you can access the Player records from the Game using the players() method. Take a look at the example where $game is an instance of Game.

$players = $game->findById(1)->players()->get();

You can also access the Game from a Player. Take a look at the example where $player is an instance of Player.

$game = $player->findById(1)->game()->get();

#Many to Many

In many to many relationships, many records can have many other related records. For example, many an Author can have many a Book and vice-versa in a bookstore.

#Implementation

Many to many relationships are a more complicated topic. For brevity, just remember that many to many relationships require a "junction table". A junction table simply stores the relationship associations as records.

Take the bookstore example. For the junction table lets assume it is named wp_authors_books with the columns authors_id and books_id. For the Author model lets assume there is a table named wp_authors with the columns id and name. For the Book model lets assume there is a table named wp_books with the columns id, title, price and pages. How would you represent the database relationship in your TypeRocket models?

Take a look at the Author model.

<?php
namespace App\Models;

use \TypeRocket\Models\Model;

class Author extends Model
{
    protected $resource = 'authors';

    /**
     * Get the player records associated with the game.
     */
    public function books()
    {
      $model = '\App\Models\Book';
      $table = 'wp_authors_books';
      return $this->belongsToMany($model, $table, 'books_id', 'authors_id');
    }
}

And, look at the Book model.

<?php
namespace App\Models;

use \TypeRocket\Models\Model;

class Book extends Model
{
    protected $resource = 'books';

    /**
     * Get the player records associated with the game.
     */
    public function authors()
    {
      $model = '\App\Models\Author';
      $table = 'wp_authors_books';
      return $this->belongsToMany($model, $table, 'authors_id', 'books_id');
    }
}

Now, you can access the Book records of the Author using the books() method. Take a look at the example where $author is an instance of Author.

$authors_books = $author->findById(1)->books()->get();

Now, you can access the Author records of the Book using the authors() method. Take a look at the example where $book is an instance of Book.

$books_authors = $book->findById(1)->authors()->get();

#Saving Many to Many Relationships

To save the relationship of a Book to an Author use the attach() method. For example, if you have author records with the IDs 1, 2, and 3 you can attach them to a book as follows.

$book->findById(1)->authors()->attach([1,2,3]);

You can also detach author records with the detach() method.

$book->findById(1)->authors()->detach([4,5,6]);

If you want to have only a specific set or records applied then you would need to detach all records and then attach the records you want.

$books_authors = $book->findById(1)->authors();
$books_authors->detach();
$books_authors->attach([1,2,3]);

Or, you can use the shortcut method sync() to detach all authors and then attach the desired authors.

$book->findById(1)->authors()->sync([1,2,3]);

#Saving Data To Pivot Table

To attach extra data to a pivot table row pass an array to the attach method.

$date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

$books_authors = $book->findById(1)->authors();

// attach author to book with pivot table data
$books_authors->attach([
    [1, 'units' => '12', 'created_at' => $date],
    [2, 'units' => '4', 'created_at' => $date],
    [3, 'units' => '2', 'created_at' => $date],
]);

#Taxonomy Relationships

If you have a custom post type model with custom taxonomies you can define the relationship using the belongsToTaxonomy() method.

<?php
namespace App\Models;

use TypeRocket\Models\WPPost;

class Post extends WPPost
{
    protected $postType = 'post';

    public function categories()
    {
        return $this->belongsToTaxonomy(Category::class, 'category');
    }

    public function tags()
    {
        return $this->belongsToTaxonomy(Tag::class, 'post_tag');
    }

}