Tim MacDonald on HasOne relationships in Laravel

2021-03-30 #laravel #eloquent / timacdonald.me

I've used HasOne relationships for 1:1 relationships, but those are rare. I haven't considered using them to scope down relationships, like having one default payment method in a set of n methods.

<?php
 
class User extends Model
{
public function paymentMethods(): HasMany
{
return $this->hasMany(PaymentMethod::class);
}
 
public function defaultPaymentMethod(): ?HasOne
{
return $this->hasOne(PaymentMethod::class)
->whereDefault();
}
}
 
$user->defaultPaymentMethod;

After reading Tim's post, I have a feeling there are some places where I needed this but didn't think of it at the time…