Relationship Table Data With Route Model Binding In Laravel

Many times you might want to use this wonderful thing called Route Model Binding in Laravel but back off because you might need its related table data too. Yup! I too had come across this situation.

Example - You want to show Customer details and CustomerAddress details so you would have done something like the following

Common Way

public function show($customer)
{
    $customer = Customer::with('customerAddress')->where('id', $customer)->first();
    return view('customer.show', [
        'customer' => $customer
    ]);
}

But let me explain 2 simple approaches to achieve it.

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1) Relationship Table Data Along With Route Model

Route Model Binding (Common Way)

public function show(Customer $customer)
{
    $customerAddress = CustomerAddress::where('id', $customer)->get();
    return view('customer.show', [
        'customer'          => $customer,
        'customerAddress'   => $customerAddress
    ]);
}

Now lets see the simple way

Route Model Binding (Super cool way - load)

public function show(Customer $customer)
{
    /** Super Awesome Right? */
    $customer->load(['customerAddress']);

    return view('customer.show', [
        'customer'          => $customer
    ]);
}

Yup the following is the super cool line.

$customer->load(['customerAddress']);

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2) $with In Model (Use wisely)

Make sure to use this wisely as it will load all the related table every time you query.

class Customer extends Model
{
    use SoftDeletes;
    protected $with = ['customerAddress'];
}

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Conclusion

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