$this->relationLoaded() for distant relationships

Obviously you can load distant relationships like this...

$user->load('posts.comments.likes');

...but it seems you are unable to do something like this

if ($user->relationLoaded('posts.comments.likes')) {
    // Do something.
}

Is there a nice way of checking if distant relations are loaded?

Thanks

SaeedPrez

9 years ago

Level 50

$this->relationLoaded() only checks the $this->relations array keys, so it does not check distant relations.

You could do something like this..

$postsLoaded = $user->relationLoaded('posts');
$commentsLoaded = $user->posts->first()->relationLoaded('comments');
$likesLoaded = $user->posts->first()->comments->first()->relationLoaded('likes');

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