Laravel Eloquent: nested relationships and data persistence

Question

I have three models.

PERSON (hasOne(EMPLOYEE), hasMany(CHILDREN))
id,
name

EMPLOYEE
id,
person_id

CHILDREN
id,
person_id

I want to add a child to human model, but I have access to the EMPLOYEE_ID. I tried to code, but it doesn't work.

$employee->person()->children()->save($child);

and

$employee->person()->children()->associate($child);

But both don't work. I don't know if this can be accomplished with just one line of code.

+3

dakine 09 June 15 at 7:59

1 answer

chanafdo · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-09T08:22:11+0000

Try this way. When you call person()

it returns the relation instead of the object itself.

$employee->person->children()->save($child);