In this article, we will see laravel 8 one to many relationship example. Also, you can use one to many relationship in laravel 6 and laravel 7. A one to many relationships is used to define relationships where a single model is a parent to one or more child models. For one to many relationships use hasMany and belongsTo the method in the model for access to each other model. Also, we will create migration with a foreign key, retrieve records using the model, insert new records, sync with a pivot table, etc.

So, let's see one to many relationship in laravel 6/7/8 or laravel 8 hasMany example.

Now, We will create Articles and Comments tables. Connect both tables with each other and create one to many relationships with each other by using the laravel model. To define this relationship, we will place a comments functions on the Article model. The comments function should call the hasMany method and return its result.

 

 

Now, we have to create migration for articles and comments tables. we will also add a foreign key with the articles table.

Create Migration of Articles Table

Schema::create('articles', function (Blueprint $table) {

    $table->increments('id');

    $table->string('name');

    $table->string('slug');

    $table->timestamps();

});

Create Migration of Comments Table with Foreign Key

Schema::create('comments', function (Blueprint $table) {

    $table->increments('id');

    $table->integer('article_id')->unsigned();

    $table->text('comments');

    $table->timestamps();


    $table->foreign('article_id')->references('id')->on('articles')->onDelete('cascade');

});

 

In the Article model, we can create the comments() function and add a relation to the Comment model using the hasMany method.

Article Model :

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Article extends Model
{
    /**
     * Get the comments for the article.
     */
    public function comments()
    {
        return $this->hasMany(Comment::class);
    }
}

 

 

Comment Model:

Now that we can access all of an article's comments, let's define a relationship to allow a comment to access its parent article. To define the inverse of a hasMany relationship, define a relationship method on the child model which calls the belongsTo method.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Comment extends Model
{
    /**
     * Get the article that owns the comment.
     */
    public function article()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(Post::class);
    }
}

In the example above, Eloquent will attempt to find a Article the model that has an id which matches the article_id column on the Comment model. So, in this example, Eloquent will assume the Article model's foreign key on the comments table is article_id.

 if the foreign key on the Comments model is not article_id, you may pass a custom key name as the second argument to the belongsTo method

/**
 * Get the article that owns the comment.
 */
public function article()
{
    return $this->belongsTo(Article::class, 'foreign_key');
}

 

Once the relationship is defined, we may retrieve the related record using Eloquent's dynamic properties. So, here we can use the Article model with the comments function.

$comments = Article::find(5)->comments;
 
foreach ($comments as $comment) {
    //
}

$comment = Comment::find(7);
 
$article = $comment->article->name;

 

 

Now, we will create records using the comment model. 

$article = Article::find(1);
 
$comment = new Comment;
$comment->comments = "One To Many Exmaple";
 
$article->comments()->save($comment);

 

In all relationships, you can use conditions to query with the model.

$comment = Article::find(1)->comments()
                    ->where('name', 'websolutionstuff')
                    ->first();

 

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