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Seems like no matter how much I research and try to learn eloquent relationship, I really struggle to get it.
Anyway...
I have 3 models: User, Position, and Content. I have 2 pivot tables: user_position and content_position. Knowing the user_id, I need to get all the contents through that user's positions. I assume it needs to be some has-many-through relationship, but I am stuck.
Appreciate any help.
On the face of it you would expect this to be a hasManyThrough relation. But this relationship type is using a simpler belongs to relationship
What you need is a hasManyThroughMany which as far as I am aware is only possible by writing your own multi-table join or by using a third party package https://github.com/staudenmeir/eloquent-has-many-deep
@Snapey Thanks for the reply and the info. Could I do it by pulling and array of the user's positions and then using that in a where statement somehow?
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