someblaster's avatar

correct relation choosen?

assume each user has a domain_id attribute, after reading laravel docs, I assume the relations to be:

user `hasOne` domain
domain `belongsToMany` users

are these relations correct?

The structure of the domain table is simple:

id | domain

users table

id | name | ... | domain_id
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LaryAI's avatar
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Based on the given table structures, the correct relation between the User and Domain models would be:

  • User belongsTo Domain
  • Domain hasMany User

This is because a user belongs to a single domain, while a domain can have multiple users associated with it.

The code for the models would look like this:

// User model
class User extends Model
{
    public function domain()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(Domain::class);
    }
}

// Domain model
class Domain extends Model
{
    public function users()
    {
        return $this->hasMany(User::class);
    }
}

With this setup, you can easily retrieve the domain of a user using the domain relationship:

$user = User::find(1);
$domain = $user->domain;

And you can also retrieve all the users associated with a domain using the users relationship:

$domain = Domain::find(1);
$users = $domain->users;
someblaster's avatar

Is this because the foreign key is hold inside the users table and not inside domains table?

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