Official Laravel documentation has this on sync()
function:
$user->roles()->sync( array( 1, 2, 3 ) );
You may also associate other pivot table values with the given IDs:
$user->roles()->sync( array( 1 => array( 'expires' => true ) ) );
In the latter example only a single pivot row is being added. What I don't understand is how can I associate other pivot table records if there are more than one rows to be synced?
Thanks in advance.
Putting this here in case I forget it later and Google it again.
In my case I wanted the extra column to have the same data for each row
Where $syncData is an array of IDs:
$syncData = array_map(fn($locationSysid) => ['other_column' => 'foo'], array_flip($syncData));
or without arrow
$syncData = array_map(function($locationSysid) {
return ['ENTITY' => 'dbo.Cli_Core'];
}, array_flip($syncData));
(array_flip means we're using the IDs as the index for the array)
In order to sync
multiple models along with custom pivot data, you need this:
$user->roles()->sync([
1 => ['expires' => true],
2 => ['expires' => false],
...
]);
Ie.
sync([
related_id => ['pivot_field' => value],
...
]);
edit
Answering the comment:
$speakers = (array) Input::get('speakers'); // related ids
$pivotData = array_fill(0, count($speakers), ['is_speaker' => true]);
$syncData = array_combine($speakers, $pivotData);
$user->roles()->sync($syncData);
$data = array();
foreach ($request->planes as $plan) {
$data_plan = array($plan => array('dia' => $request->dia[$plan] ) );
array_push($data,$data_plan);
}
$user->planes()->sync($data);
Add following trait to your project and append it to your model class as a trait. This is helpful, because this adds functionality to use multiple pivots. Probably someone can clean this up a little and improve on it ;)
namespace App\Traits;
trait AppTraits
{
/**
* Create pivot array from given values
*
* @param array $entities
* @param array $pivots
* @return array combined $pivots
*/
public function combinePivot($entities, $pivots = [])
{
// Set array
$pivotArray = [];
// Loop through all pivot attributes
foreach ($pivots as $pivot => $value) {
// Combine them to pivot array
$pivotArray += [$pivot => $value];
}
// Get the total of arrays we need to fill
$total = count($entities);
// Make filler array
$filler = array_fill(0, $total, $pivotArray);
// Combine and return filler pivot array with data
return array_combine($entities, $filler);
}
}
Model:
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Example extends Model
{
use Traits\AppTraits;
// ...
}
Usage:
// Get id's
$entities = [1, 2, 3];
// Create pivots
$pivots = [
'price' => 634,
'name' => 'Example name',
];
// Combine the ids and pivots
$combination = $model->combinePivot($entities, $pivots);
// Sync the combination with the related model / pivot
$model->relation()->sync($combination);
Attaching / Detaching
Eloquent also provides a few additional helper methods to make working with related models more convenient. For example, let's imagine a user can have many roles and a role can have many users. To attach a role to a user by inserting a record in the intermediate table that joins the models, use the attach method:
$user = App\User::find(1);
$user->roles()->attach($roleId);
When attaching a relationship to a model, you may also pass an array of additional data to be inserted into the intermediate table:
$user->roles()->attach($roleId, ['expires' => $expires]);
You can also use Sync if you want to remove old roles and only keep the new ones you are attaching now
$user->roles()->sync([1 => ['expires' => $expires], 2 => ['expires' => $expires]);
The default behaviour can be changed by passing a 'false' as a second argument. This will attach the roles with ids 1,2,3 without affecting the existing roles.
In this mode sync behaves similar to the attach method.
$user->roles()->sync([1 => ['expires' => $expires], 2 => ['expires' => $expires], false);
Reference: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/eloquent-relationships
Simply just append your fields and their values to the elements:
$user->roles()->sync([
1 => ['F1' => 'F1 Updated']
]);
Source: Stackoverflow.com