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Hello, I have a project that is a commercial guide, where we can create commerces and assign X number of categories to them. The categories are grouped in up to 3 levels. That is, for example: "Education" -> "Teachers" -> "Spanish"
But, there are cases where there is only one level up or two. Example: "Cars" -> "Driver's Academy"
I know that I have to do "Many to Many" relationships, but how? I need to have a table for each level of categories? How can I assign the relationships on a pivot table?
If anyone can guide me a bit would greatly appreciate it!
I am fairly new to Laravel but hopefully soon I will also collaborate and help others with issues they may have.
Thanks in advance!!
Hi! It'a pleasure to see an italian mate around this community. It's quite unusual. You are italian, aren't you?
Anyway, the feature you're trying to implement it's called nested sets. There are a bunch of packages you can install. This, for example, is in active development https://github.com/lazychaser/laravel-nestedset.
Bye
Awesome!!
Do you know is this works on Laravel 5?
P.S.: Im from Argentina, but my grandparents are from Italy :)
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