Laravel Starter - PHP User Group (Myanmar)

Laravel Starter
{
}
public function students()
{
return $this->has_many_and_belongs_to('Student');
}
We have two models, each with the same type of relationship to each other. has_many_and_
belongs_to is a long name. But, it's a fairly simple concept. A course has many students.
But, it also belongs to (belongs_to) student records and vice-versa. In this way, they are
considered equal.
Let's look at how we'll interact with these models in practice:
$student = Student::find(1);
if(is_null($student))
{
echo "The student can't be found.";
exit;
}
if(!$student->courses)
{
echo "The student $student->name is not enrolled in any
courses.";
exit;
}
foreach($student->courses as $course)
{
echo "The student $student->name is enrolled in the course
$course->name.";
}
Here you can see that we can loop through the courses much the same way we could with the
one-to-many relationship. Any time a relationship includes the word many, you know that you'll
be receiving an array of models. Conversely, let's pull a course and see which students are a part
of it.
$course = Course::find(1);
if(is_null($course))
{
echo "The course can't be found.";
exit;
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