Counting Related Models In Laravel

1 year ago Sun, Jan 2, 2022
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Very often when retrieving a model in Laravel, it is useful to load a count of related models at the same time. For example, when loading a blog post, you might want to display the number of comments left on that post.

Luckily, Laravel has a method to do just that:

$posts = Post::withCount('comments')->get();

What's more, as of Laravel 8, you can also make use of the withMin, withMax, withAvg, withSum, and withExists methods.

Read more in the Laravel Documentation.

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