I am trying to join two tabels using Laravel (just started using it). One table holds user information, and the other table holds a users friend IDs.
So one user can have multiple friends. I have done this is the user class:
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class User extends Model
{
protected $table="user_info";
public function getFriends()
{
//user_id is the column in the user_friends table that should be linked to the id table in this class table (user_info)
return $this->hasMany('App\UserFriends','user_id','id');
}
}
And the other class (UserFriends)
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class UserFriends extends Model
{
protected $table="user_friends";
}
Then in a controller I call
$t = $this->sql_obj->getFriends()->toSql();
However, if I print the result of this it returns this:
select * from `user_friends` where `user_friends`.`user_id` is null and `user_friends`.`user_id` is not null
Why is it not joining the tables?
Thanks for any help!