A lightweight implementation of Laravel's belongs To many relationship in cases you don't need pivot table.
First, install the package through Composer.
composer require inani/lazy-belongs-to-manySuppose we have the following database structure. A User can be linked to one or many Tag. instead of creating the pivot table we can save tags id list in a column on the user table.
| id | name | tags_id |
|----|-------------------|---------------|
| 1 | El Houssain inani | [1, 10, 4, 33]|
<?php
namespace Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Inani\LazyBelongsToMany\Relations\BelongsToManyCreator;
class User extends Model
{
use BelongsToManyCreator;
protected $casts = [
'tags_id' => 'array' // <=== IMPORTANT
];
/**
* Tags
* @return mixed
*/
public function tags()
{
return $this->belongsToManyInArray(Tag::class);
}
}For the time being there is no implementation for the inverse. I'll be happy to see your contribution at any way.
Happy Coding.