I am working on a eloquent query to compile a newsletter but I have hit a brick wall.
What I'm trying to do is create a UI where the user can select a publication and date. Ideally it would then compile a list of that publication's categories (where stories > 0) and stories belonging to it.
Here are my 3 models:
Story
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('User', 'user_id');
}
public function publication()
{
return $this->belongsTo('Workbench\Dailies\Publication', 'publication_id');
}
public function category()
{
return $this->belongsTo('Workbench\Dailies\Category', 'category_id');
}
Publication
public function story()
{
return $this->belongsTo('Workbench\Dailies\Story');
}
public function stories()
{
return $this->hasMany('Workbench\Dailies\Story', 'publication_id');
}
public function category()
{
return $this->belongsTo('Workbench\Dailies\Category', 'publication_id');
}
Category
public function story()
{
return $this->belongsTo('Workbench\Dailies\Story', 'category_id');
}
public function publications()
{
return $this->belongsTo('Workbench\Dailies\Publication', 'publication_id');
}
public function stories()
{
return $this->hasMany('Workbench\Dailies\Story', 'category_id');
}
Here is how my tables look:
Story
- content
- user_id
- publication_id
- category_id
- publish_date
Publication
- id
- name
Category
- id
- name
- publication_id
Here is what I currently have in my Repository.
public function compileStories($input)
{
return Category::has('stories', '>', 0)
->with('publications')
->whereHas('stories', function ($query) use ($input)
{
$query->where('publish_date', $input['publish_date']);
$query->where('publication_id', $input['publication_id']);
});
}
Am I headed in the right direction here or is there any way to improve the code above? It is not currently functioning as expected.