Help with Eloquent model / relationship

You would have a belongsToMany relationship between Book and Publisher using the books_publishers pivot table. You have used a non-conventional name for the Pivot table, so you will need to specify this inside the relationship definition.

// Book
public function publishers
{
    return $this->belongsToMany(Publisher::class, 'books_publishers');
}

Then you can eager-load the publishers when you are querying for books:

// Eloquent query
$books = Book::with('publishers')->get();

Is it expected that books can have more than one publisher?

Thank you. I used your example and it works ok, I just had to add local and foreign keys to relationship definition.

Thanks again!

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