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Exercise: Laravel: posts and their comments · CodeChallenge

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PHP & Laravel

Laravel: posts and their comments

Define a one-to-many relationship and load it without N+1 queries.

advancedPHP / Laravel· PHP & Laravel

The task

A post has many comments, and each comment belongs to one post.

In Post, add a comments() relationship (hasMany).
In Comment, add a post() relationship (belongsTo).
In PostController@index, load the 10 newest posts with their comments and the number of comments, using as few queries as possible (no N+1).

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