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Laravel Many to Many Self Relationship

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This package includes an extension to the belongsToMany Relationship of the Laravel allowing two-way association between the same model with a single Entry on the pivot table.

Installation

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Version

This package is available on specific Laravel versions.

Package Version Laravel Version
1.x 6.20+ or 7.29+
2.0.x 8.17 - 8.34
2.1+ 8.35+ or 9+

Usage

Include the HasBelongsToManySelfRelation trait in the Model class and define the relation method as follows:

It is that simple and has all the Methods available on the belongsToMany(). The Related Posts can be accessed like any normal relation.

This is an extension over the native BelongsToMany class provided by the Eloquent.

Example

Consider there are 'posts' table and 'related_posts' table. The Post represent Post in the blog and it can have related posts similar to them.

The belongsToManySelf relation provides two-way association when calling the Relation.

Caution

There is a possibility for the returning of duplicate related object if the entities are related by 2rows on the Pivot table.

Use Cases

This two-way associated Many-to-Many relationship can be used in few peculiar situations. This relation doesn't suit all the Scenarios.

a) Related Posts / Products

Consider a blog or shopping website, where we have post / product related to each other. When the related Entity is matched via BelongsToMany relationship, the association of one Post/Product as related to the other post/product, on fetching the relatedPost or relatedProduct from the first Object will yield the second, but the inverse is not true (ie, getting first post/product as related post/product from the second)

b) Friend list in social media

In Social Media, the concept of Users being friended to one another can be easily achieved using this relation (not followers & following, just mutual friends). Once a Users add another User as friends, we can attach the User and doesn't need to care about the attachment of reverse while using this relationship.

Note: The Concept of followers and following has to use the Laravel's BelongsToMany relation. This relation is for friends like in Facebook.

c) Messages in a Chat

The Message in a Chat application, where a message is directed from a User to another User. This relation lets you retrieve all the Users that have messaged a particular User.

Note: There may be possibility of duplicates in this case

API Reference

The trait HasBelongsToManySelfRelation adds the method belongsToManySelf to your Model.

The BelongsToManySelf is a concrete/child/sub-class of the Eloquent BelongsToMany class. So, All the methods available on the BelongsToMany is also available on this Relation.

Known Issues

The following Issues / Problems were found in this package or the underlying Database Engine.

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