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In laravel, what happen if we define hasMany() relationship but didn't define belongsTo() relationship?

I think (I don’t really know, if I’m wrong please correct me), this is actually Many To Many relationship between Medias table and other tables (Users, Messages, Posts).

So, I am creating the middle table named Media_links to connect the Many To Many relation between these tables.

I am thinking to define the hasMany() relation for the Medias tables, but didn’t want to define its belongsTo() relationship.

I didn’t try anything yet. Posting this thread just to get insights first.

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  1. 0

    Nothing really happens to your application, other than if you were to access you’r pivot table, you won’t be able to call any relationships from it.

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    If you are creating pivot table you should create a belongsToMany relation , this provides you sync(), attach() methods . Otherwise you can simply create hasMany relation. What you are trying to do actually ?

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    hasMany and belongsTo is a one-to-many, NOT many-to-many.

    about your question, you can access the relation whereever you define it, but not the inverse unless you define it!

    i.e.
    if you have a Teacher and Student model

    Teacher Model

    use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentRelationsHasMany;

class Teacher extends Model {

    public function students(): HasMany {
        return $this->hasMany(Student::class);
    }
}

    Student Model

    use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentRelationsBelongsTo;

class Student extends Model {

    //Relation below not define.
    /* public function teacher(): BelongsTo {
        return $this->belongsTo(Teacher::class);
    } */
}


//each line below works fine, you can perform relationship related query 
$teacher->students()->create([...]); // create students relation
$teacher->students; //lazy load students relation
Teacher::with('students')->paginate(); //eager load students relation


//each line below will throw 500 error as Inverse relation is not define 
$student->teacher()->create([...]); // create teacher relation
$student->teacher; //lazy load teacher relation
Student::with('teacher')->paginate(); //eager load teacher relation
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