To achieve this, you're going to need to join
the images_tags
and images
tables, count the number of tags, and order by those tags.
$tags = Tag::selectRaw('tags.*, COUNT(images.id) AS total')
->join('images_tags', 'tags.id', '=', 'images_tags.tag_id')
->join('images', 'images.id', '=', 'images_tags.image_id')
->where('images.created_by', $user->id)
->groupBy('tags.id')
->orderBy('total', 'desc')
->get();
The above query will only work in MySQL if the only_full_group_by
option is disabled. Otherwise, you're going to need to either rewrite this to use a sub query, or do the ordering in the returned Laravel Collection
. For example:
$tags = Tag::selectRaw('tags.*, COUNT(images.id) AS total')
->join('images_tags', 'tags.id', '=', 'images_tags.tag_id')
->join('images', 'images.id', '=', 'images_tags.image_id')
->where('images.created_by', $user->id)
->groupBy('tags.id')
->get();
$tags = $tags->sortByDesc(function ($tag) {
return $tag->total;
});
If you want to add this to your user model, per your comment, create a function similar to the following:
public function getMostUsedTags($limit = 3)
{
return Tag::selectRaw('tags.*, COUNT(images.id) AS total')
->join('images_tags', 'tags.id', '=', 'images_tags.tag_id')
->join('images', 'images.id', '=', 'images_tags.image_id')
->where('images.created_by', $this->id)
->groupBy('tags.id')
->orderBy('total', 'desc')
->limit($limit)
->get();
}