I have had my Models relationships defined the traditional way and it has been working fine. However, I started using Ardent to make validation easier, and noticed that it has a useful feature for defining Eloquent relationships.
https://github.com/laravelbook/ardent#relations
To put this in to context, I have a User model, that belongs_to a Location (geographic in this instance).
Before, I would use:
public function location(){
return $this->belongsTo('Location', 'location');
}
and I had no problems whatsoever. Changing over to the Ardent way of doing it has produced:
protected static $relationsData = array(
'location' => array(self::BELONGS_TO, 'Location', 'foreignKey' => 'location')
);
Which always returns null rather than the Users location.
User.php
use LaravelBook\Ardent\Ardent;
class User extends Ardent implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface {
protected static $table = 'agents';
protected static $relationsData = array(
'location' => array(self::BELONGS_TO, 'Location', 'foreignKey' => 'location')
);
}
Database agents id: int(11) PK location: int(11) FK(locations.id)
*locations*
id: int(11) PK
longtext: text
I have no idea why this is now not returning anything anymore as it is the same just different syntax.
I could just go back to the Laravel way of doing it, but I like Ardent's syntax more.
