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ryanpitts1
ryanpitts1

Reputation: 894

Laravel and Eloquent saving relationship on the hasOne side

Ok, working in Laravel with eloquent so i have the concept of a ContentType model and a Template model. I have a form where you set data for the Content Type and you select from a drop down list of templates which one is to be associated with the content type. My models look like this:

ContentType:

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use \Hyn\Tenancy\Traits\UsesTenantConnection;

class ContentType extends Model
{
    use UsesTenantConnection;

    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [
        'parent_content_id', 'name', 'description', 'is_requestable', 'status',
    ];

    /**
     * Get the template that owns the content type.
     */
    public function template()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('App\Template');
    }

    /**
     * Get the entity groups for the content type.
     */
    public function entity_groups()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('App\EntityGroup');
    }

    /**
     * Get the entities for the content type.
     */
    public function entities()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('App\Entity');
    }
}

Template:

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use \Hyn\Tenancy\Traits\UsesTenantConnection;

class Template extends Model
{
    use UsesTenantConnection;

    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [
        'name', 'filename', 'status',
    ];

    /**
     * Get the content types for the template.
     */
    public function content_types()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('App\ContentType');
    }
}

What i want to do is store or update the template value. Is there a way of doing this straight off of . the ContentType model instead of saving that relationship through the Template model? Or should i adjust the types of relationship i have in the first place?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 448

Answers (1)

DevK
DevK

Reputation: 9942

You could do it like this:

$contentType->template()->update([
    'colToBeUpdated' => 'new value',
]);

This will execute 1 query to update the template of the $contentType.

But if you just want to change the template_id (to associate $contentType with some other template) you could just do:

$contentType->template()->associate($newId);

Or

$contentType->update(['template_id' => $newId]);

Upvotes: 1

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