Laravel 6 Advanced - e3 - Polymorphic Relationships

Polymorphism is just a fancy word for the concept that objects can take different shapes as long as they follow the same interface. In this episode, we are exploring One To One (Polymorphic) relationships, One To Many (Polymorphic) relationships and Many to Many (Polymorphic) relationships by example.
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Great Video! Only thing I'm missing is the Relation::morphMap which can be configured in the boot method of the AppServiceProvider. That way the namespaces won't show up in the database like 'App\\User' but for instance as 'user'. That way, when a model gets moved to another namespace you don't have to write migrations, but just change it namespace in the AppServiceProvider.

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Thank you for this tutorial , just follow-up question this type of relationship is reliable enough? vs the common relationship practice ?

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As alternative, we can have an "image_id" in each of the tables that require an image (Users, Posts, etc)

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Great video/tutorial! I have a question regarding a database query performance. The database column "imageable_type" can't be used as foreign key to an appropriate table because it's used for different models. How it will work in case of many database records when foreign key/index is missing? Is it better to have a separate image table for each model in that case?

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Do you have a suggestion on keeping order of images of a One-to-Many relationship? Let's say a post usually has a header and footer image. Would you add an incrementing integer column and use code to check it 1 or 2 (like an enum) or would you have a better way to implement this?

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first of all thank you for explaining so beautifully. Can i ask how do you fetch the data according to tags? i.e. show video according to tags and show post according to same tag? Thank you for making this video

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hi! thank you for that video it is awesome! I have some question: What if that morph tables (comments, images, tags.) contains a lot of records? Does the queries will be run slowly? Thanks

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What about creating a history of user's payments and visitor's visits? Is the morphing a right way to do it?

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When is the best time kr what case is best practice to use polymorphic?

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How would you do the inverse and query all tags that belong to a specific model?

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Can you please guide and build a similar video on the business model of "User", "Address" and "Company" tables. Scenario here is that 1. an address can belong to a user and at the same time belongs to a Company, 2. a company can have many branch address and 3. a user can have many billing address (like an amazons many shipping address). In an market place there are many user so a users can be a vender with business address and user can have an non-business address who does not belong to a company and is a buyer in that marketplace. Requesting you to please structure it. As this is three way relationship explanation needed. I believe this video will be very help full to me and to many others. !!!!!

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Hi Victor. Just a question for being sure... If my models are in a dedicate folder name Models for example do I have to put the full name space of a relationship declaration?

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Yes. Or you’ll have to import the class up top with a use statement.

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@@CodersTape OK thanks a lot!!

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How do you link comments to users in this case ? And, is it possible to make nested comments with this system ?

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is there any course from you to create one page wih multiple crud many to many relation ship, its like 1 page profile to add lot of function such as add document add position add assignment etc,

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what does it mean "taggable" in the second parameter

[@mundix1]

hi, how i can verify if for example relation User -> Image, hasImage(Image $image) ? to check before assign again ?

[@vahidabedi9534]

Tnx for your great videos. I have one question. What is the advantage of using polymorphism over using the scenario below: images table: -post_id -user_id ... (and we fill just one of the id columns based on use case)

[@stevenstraker5105]

This is another way of doing it, however, this requires specifying a column for individual relation. Polymorphism allows for dynamic relationships, so the database doesn't require changing each time a a new relationship type is added

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taggable_id remains 1 and unchanged. What's it supposed to be used for ?

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What if I want to upload multiple images for a single post. Like one for Thumbnails and another for the gallery?

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Congratulations on the great video! How do I get relationship data using ELOQUENT in CONTROLLER?

[@CodersTape]

Exactly the same way. Just fetch the record and grab its relationship

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@@CodersTape Thanks! It works.

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Excelents videos Victor, I have a question a litle bit diferent, how to handle the laravel version upgrade in your app?, suposse you have large app maked in laravel 5.5 and now you want to use laravel´s version 6

[@CodersTape]

When upgrading from version to version, you will need to follow each guide and make the necessary changes from 5.5 to 5.6 and then from 5.6 to 5.7 and so on. There’s also a service called Laravel Shift which does the upgrade pretty automatic for you but it costs money. Might be worth looking into it.

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At 8:25, if you run $user->image()->create(['url' = > 'profile.jpg']); you will have more images for the user. How do you make a constraint that no record should be created for the user if one already exists?

[@neerajsinghtangariya2587]

Hello sir, For creating the task is done, but how to update this existing records in polymorphic.

[@ehSamurai3483]

So if 2 tables is related to one table, we create a polymorphic relationship right?

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Hello, how are you, could you give an example of how to get api resource with polymorphic relationships. for example: get Post with the comments and image

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In 8:50 You said, "So this image can not belong to more than one 'User'.". What does it mean? Is it mean a profile picture with a unique URL can not be used by more than a user? I query it. But it creates a unique image URL with two users. Do you clear me out?

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[@patrickgomes2261]

I think having different tables when you have a big website would be better to maximize the time... Imagine searching in a table with comments from posts, videos and other things all together... Of course you can take based on the type but even though I think it would take more time than a separated table

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what is the difference putting the image column in POST? is it faster there than creating new table.

[@CodersTape]

I’m not following your question. Can you elaborate?

[@PunxTV123]

@@CodersTape I mean there is image column in posts table, and the data are url of images. so every query of user/posts need to left join right?