02 - Filter Model By user_id: With where() and Global Scope
So now that we have the user_id in our DB table, let's filter by that, so that each user would access only their projects. Option 1
29 - Polymorphic Relations: Explained with Example
Polymorphic relations are challenging to understand at first glance. So, the best way to explain it is with examples
Tutorial
6 min read
Free
Pivot tables and many-to-many relationships
Today I want to talk about a feature of Laravel which is really useful but can be potentially difficult to understand at first. Pivot table is an example of intermediate table with relationships between two other "main" tables.
Video
12:23 mins
Free
Laravel Pivot Tables: Simple to Advanced Many-to-Many
This is a deep dive into belongsToMany Relationships in Laravel with examples - from simple, to much more complex.
Video
10:36 mins
Free
Laravel Eloquent: Deeper Relationships with One Query
If you work with a project that has multiple levels of hasMany relationships, you can use hasManyThrough instead, or one of a few packages I will show in this video.
Video
9:55 mins
Free
Eloquent Polymorphic Relations: Properly Explained
Polymorphic relations are one of the most difficult concept to understand for junior developers, and I tried to do it with a real-life example.
Video
5:10 mins
Free
Laravel Foreign Key Migrations: Bugs to Avoid and Syntax To Know
I see various bugs and problems people face with foreign key migrations, so I decided to talk about different syntax options and things to know.
Tutorial
5 min read
Free
Eloquent hasMany: Get Parent with Latest Row of Relationship - 5 Ways
Eloquent has a lot of "hidden gems". In this tutorial, let's see how we can get the latest record from the `hasMany` Relationship in five different ways.
Tutorial
2 min read
Free
Filter Eloquent relationships "on-the-fly", when you need it
I find more and more Eloquent functions that are rarely used, so continue posting these short tips on the blog. Here's the next one.
Tutorial
2 min read
Free
Eloquent Relations: how to order topics by newest posts?
Quite a typical scenario, but not easy to find the answer. You can easily order Eloquent results by some column, but what if you want to order by related column in child table? Most common example is a forum like Laracasts which shows topics in order by the latest post in that topic. How to do that?
Video
14:08 mins
Free
Laravel: BelongsTo vs Polymorphic? Let's Test!
I get a lot of questions about database structure, and in this video I will practically test two different DB structures and we will try to see which is better: belongsTo with three columns, or polymorphic relations?
Video
12:04 mins
Free
Eloquent N+1 Query: All You Need to Know
This video is a 4-in-1 lesson from my course "Eloquent: Expert Level" about N+1 Query Problem.
Video
10:50 mins
Free
Laravel HasMany: Delete Parent - What Happens with Children?
There are many ways how to deal with deleting the records that are in a relationship. In this video, I will show the default behavior, and how we can change it in Laravel validation, in migrations, or with soft-deletes.
Quick Tip
Replace your custom queries with ofMany
Package
4336 stars
Last updated November 2025
spatie/laravel-query-builder
Filter, sort and include eloquent relations based on a request.
Package
2827 stars
Last updated November 2025
staudenmeir/eloquent-has-many-deep
This extended version of HasManyThrough allows relationships with unlimited intermediate models.
Package
1188 stars
Last updated November 2025
topclaudy/compoships
Compoships offers the ability to specify relationships based on two (or more) columns in Laravel's Eloquent ORM. The need to match multiple columns in the definition of an Eloquent relationship often arises when working with third party or pre existing schema/database
Video
7:40 mins
Free
Laravel DB: Query BelongsTo 2-Levels Up - Direct Column?
A free lesson from my course "Structuring Databases in Laravel 11".
Video
7:35 mins
Free
Eloquent: Query 3-Level Relations with hasManyThrough and withCount
Another *practical* video of helping someone on Laracasts forum to query the data. This video has a "plot twist" where I decided to make my code even better.
Video
6:00 mins
Free
Laravel Eloquent: Order By Relationship - Two Ways
Quite a regular task, but not a simple solution: how to order query results by a belongsTo relation column? I will show you one "bad" way, and two good ways to do it.
Tutorial
1 min read
Free
belongsTo() and withTrashed() - linking to deleted row
Let's say we have DB table products, which is linked to table categories with a field products.category_id = categories.id, Eloquent helps us to define a relation easily. But what if the category gets (soft) deleted, but we still need to have that relationship to be returned for history reasons? You can use withTrashed() method here.
Tutorial
1 min read
Free
Eloquent Relationships - with "automatic" orderBy
Quick tip for today - let's imagine we have a one-to-many relationship between Categories and Products, and we often show list of products here and there in our app. What if we want them ordered by name alphabetically? Should we add orderBy in every query? No, we can define that in relationship itself.