laravel join multiple tables with nested data-CodePudding

I have a situation where I need data within data while doing a DB call.

For example I have a post, that has many comments, but then there is a user to that comment in another table.

So I have

$post = Posts::where('id', $id)->with('comments')->first();

and Posts model is

public function comments()
    {   
        return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Comments', 'postId', 'postId');
    }

This works well, I get the post and all the comments but now I need to get the users for those comments. How would I include that?

CodePudding user response：

This would be

$post = Posts::where('id', $id)->with('comments', 'comments.user')->first(); or what ever you have called the user relation on the comment. or


class Comment extends Model
{
    protected $with = ['user'];

    public function user()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
    }
}

Will always return the user with the comment.