Question

How to create Eloquent model with relationship?

I have:

Person table

id
firstname
lastname

Employee table

id
person_id
position

I want to do something like this:

Employee::create([
'firstname' => 'Jack',
'lastname' => 'London',
'position' => 'writer'
])

I know, that can create two model and then associate their. But may be there is a way do this more beautiful?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

First, you have to create relation in your Person model

class Person extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = ['firstname', 'lastname'];

    public function employee()
    {
        return $this->hasOne('App\Employee');
    }
}

After that in your controller you can do:

$person = Person::create($personData);
$person->employee()->create($employeeData);

Hope it helps!!

Thank You!!