An alert can have many messages associated with it, through a foreign key. Each message sent is also attached to a user, through a foreign key. On viewing the alert, if such messages exist (they are not required), I want to display each message, along with the associated user's details.
User model:
public function alerts()
{
return $this->hasMany('Alert');
}
public function messages()
{
return $this->hasMany('Message');
}
Alert model:
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('User');
}
public function messages()
{
return $this->hasMany('Message');
}
I have noticed if the alert doesn't have any messages associated with it, the forloop
doesn't work!
Within my show
view, I have:
@foreach($alerts as $alert)
<tr>
<td>{{ $alerts->messages->first()->firstname }}</td>
<td>{{ $alerts->messages->first()->user->email }}</td>
<td>{{ $alerts->messages->first()->user->phone_number }}</td>
<td>{{ $alerts->messages->first()->message }}</td>
<td>{{ date("j F Y", strtotime($alerts->messages->first()->created_at)) }}</td>
<td>{{ date("g:ia", strtotime($alerts->messages->first()->created_at)) }}</td>
</tr>
@endforeach
Which works great, if there are messages to show, but it only loops through the first message, not the rest of them. The controller pulling in the data is:
public function show($id)
{
$alert = Alert::where('id','=',$id)->first();
$this->layout->content = View::make('agents.alert.show',
array('alerts' => $alert));
}
Any guidance as to why the forloop
doesn't work when there is less 2 results, and why it only loops through the first result. Thank you.