I'm having issues getting a proper count total with my Laravel model.
Model Structure
- User
- Item
- ItemLike
A user can have multiple Items, and each of these Items can have multiple ItemLikes (when a user 'likes' the item).
I can easily get the individual ItemLike counts when using an Item model:
return $this->itemLikes()->count();
But I can't figure out how to get the total # of ItemLike's a User has across all the Item's he owns.
EXAMPLE
User A has 3 Items. Each Item has 5 ItemLike's, for a grand total of 15.
I tried using eager loading on the User model like this:
return $this->items()->with('itemlikes')->get()->count();
But that returns 3 (the # of Items)
These are the queries it ran, which appears like the second query is the one I want, yet every way I try it I still get 3 instead of 15
select * from `items` where `items`.`user_id` = '1000'
select * from `item_likes` where `item_likes`.`item_id` in ('1000', '1001', '1002')