Laravel eloquent relationships user group posts

Question

I am trying to get the users group, and include the post on that group.

This returns the users groups, but the groups must contain the posts of the group too. a post has group_id to where it is posted

My code to get the user:

return User::find(1)->groups;

My User model:

public function groups()
{
    return $this->belongsToMany('Group');
}

My group model:

public function posts()
{
    return $this->hasMany('Post');
}

Answer 1

Here's what you need: return User::with('groups', 'groups.posts')->find(1);

Check out nested eager loading at the bottom of the section on http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#eager-loading

Answer 2

You need to specify the relation to retrieve with your user, for example :

$user = User::with('groups')->find(1);

Also I would recomend to specify the keys in your relations for performance boost.

Also if you need nested with you can do this way:

$user = User::with('groups.posts')->find(1);

This will load User with groups and also posts in that group. It's stated in laravel docs. See this: eager loading