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I am developing a database for giveaways. I have two main tables: participants and giveaways with an N:N relationship since a participant can participate to one or more giveaways and a giveaway can have one or more participants. My (simplified) table structure is the following:

giveaways 
----------------------
uuid    name


participant_giveaway
----------------------
id    giveaway_uuid    fiscal_code 


participants
----------------------
fiscal_code    first_name    last_name

Now, I have followed the docs for Laravel 11 but the relationship gives me wrong results. For instance, I have 4 participants for a giveaway and when I try to retrieve them with Giveaway::find($uuid)->participants, it returns 2 random participants that are linked to another giveaway.

This is my Giveaway model.

<?php

namespace AppModels;

use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentConcernsHasUuids;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentFactoriesHasFactory;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentRelationsBelongsToMany;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentRelationsHasMany;
use IlluminateSupportCollection;
use SpatieMediaLibraryHasMedia;
use SpatieMediaLibraryInteractsWithMedia;

class Giveaway extends Model implements HasMedia
{
    use HasFactory, InteractsWithMedia, HasUuids;

    protected $primaryKey = 'uuid';

    protected $fillable = [
        'name',
        'terms_and_conditions',
        'privacy_policy',
        'date_start',
        'date_end'
    ];

    
    protected $casts = [
        'date_start' => 'datetime',
        'date_end' => 'datetime',
    ];

    public function participants(): BelongsToMany
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany(Participant::class, 'participant_giveaway', 'giveaway_uuid', 'fiscal_code')
            ->withPivot('drawn', 'code', 'expiration_date', 'status', 'created_at')->withTimestamps();
    }

    public function drawableParticipants(): Collection
    {
        return $this->participants()->where('drawn', 0)->get()->pluck('participant');
    }
}

This is my Participant model.

<?php

namespace AppModels;

use DatabaseFactoriesParticipantFactory;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentFactoriesFactory;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentFactoriesHasFactory;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentRelationsBelongsToMany;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentRelationsHasMany;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentRelationsHasOne;
use IlluminateSupportCollection;

class Participant extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;

    protected $fillable = [
        'name',
        'date_start',
        'date_end'
    ];

    public function giveaways(): BelongsToMany
    {
        return $this->BelongsToMany(Giveaway::class, 'participant_giveaway', 'fiscal_code', 'giveaway_uuid')
            ->withPivot('drawn', 'code', 'expiration_date', 'status', 'created_at')->withTimestamps();
    }
}

Edit: I made a dump of the query being run when accessing the giveaway’s participants through the relationship. I get: "select * from participants inner join participant_giveaway on participants.id = participant_giveaway.fiscal_code where participant_giveaway.giveaway_uuid = ?". The problem is that Laravel is joining the participants table on the id instead of the fiscal_code. I correctly set up the fields on which to join in the model so I do get why it does not join on them.

2

Answers


  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER

    Since I could not figure out why Laravel still persists to join on the id column instead of the fiscal_code, I opted for the easiest road and changed the participants primary key from id to fiscal_code.

    Furthrmore, I also had a typo in my Participant giveaways() method. Instead of using this->belongsToMany() I was using this->BelongsToMany (with a capital B).


  2. It looks like the issue may stem from the way you’re defining the relationships and the way you’re retrieving the participants. Here are a couple of suggestions to resolve this:

    Pivot Table Configuration: Ensure that your pivot table (participant_giveaway) uses the correct column names. Your current definition seems correct, but double-check that the actual database structure matches the specified fields.

    Eager Loading: When you retrieve the giveaway, consider using eager loading to ensure you get the correct participants. Use the following when querying:

    $giveaway = Giveaway::with(‘participants’)->find($uuid);

    Correct Usage of pluck: In your drawableParticipants method, you’re trying to pluck participants but might be referencing them incorrectly. Change it to:

        public function drawableParticipants(): Collection
    {
        return $this->participants()->where('drawn', 0)->get();
    }
    

    Check the UUID: Make sure that the UUID you’re using to find the giveaway is correct and corresponds to the correct participants.

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