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Laravel Unusual Relationships

This package is meant to provide its users with an API to accessing relationships that aren't included in Laravel's base installation. It achieves this effect by utilizing a trait which in turn instantiates custom relationship classes which rely on Laravel's relationship scaffolding.

class Employee extends Model {
    public function tasks() 
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany(Task::class);
    }
    
    public function boss() 
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(Boss::class);
    }
}

class Boss extends Model {
    use Shomisha\UnusualRelationships\HasUnusualRelationships;

    public function employees() 
    {
        return $this->hasMany(Employee::class);
    }
    
    public function tasks()
    {
        return $this->belongsToManyThrough(Task::class, Employee::class)
    }
}

The example above shows how you can use the belongsToManyThrough relationship to connect your model to its distantly related models.

To learn more about this package, how to install and use it and which relationships you can access through its methods please go through the other pages in our wiki.