I have set up a hasMany relationship between a model called Supplier, and a model called SupplierMeta.
SupplierMeta is linked to a table with the structure:
id, supplier_id, name, value
and the Supplier model has the following relationship defined:
public function meta() {
return $this->hasMany('Model\SupplierMeta');
}
The relationship itself works fine, but what I would like to do is define another function that searches within that relationship by the "name" field and returns the value. I would like it to work in this format:
$supplier->meta->field_name, or $supplier->meta()->field_name
This would either return the "value" field of the relevant SupplierMeta object, if it exists, or otherwise return false. Is this possible?
via Tom Haddad
