10 Laravel 7 Eloquent Tricks

Laravel Eloquent ORM provides a whole lot of useful functionality that allows you to work with your database tables and relationships using an eloquent expressive syntax.

So, In here are some of the features which you might often reach out for ease of use and cleaner code in your laravel project.

Here’s an example of finding a post with id.

Or, you can even find multiple records at once by passing array of ids as second argument.

Even specify id with the fields to select as the second argument.

In this method, you can specify what to do on different model events such as creating, updating, deleting etc by passing a closure function.

These are only few of the default properties of an eloquent model you often would reach out. You can change the values according to your needs.

you can retrieve the number of results from a relationship without actually loading them you may use the withCount method.

Define a relation comments():

Then, you can use like this:

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