Ggtcf

I have a laravel application in which the setting_types and user's settings are saved into different models.

User.php:

/*
 * Getting the user's notification setting.
*/
public function notificationSetting()

 return $this->hasMany('AppNotificationSetting');


/*
 * Controller function to get the user's settings
*/
public function getSetting(Request $request)

 $userSetting = $user->notificationSetting;
 // check new settings are inserted for user or not.
 if (someCondition) 
 // add new settings for user.
 $user->notificationSetting()->save(new NotificationSetting(['user_id' => $user_id, "notification_type_id" => 121]));
 print_r($user->notificationSetting); // still rec. Old values.
 
 return $user->notificationSetting;

As you can see that I insert the relation object but I didn't receive on the same time. and if I hit again (this time my someCondition become false) so it will return the update records.

Since the save() method returns a boolean, you could write it like this:

$user->notificationSetting()
 ->save(
 $notificationSetting = new NotificationSetting([
 'user_id' => $user_id, 
 'notification_type_id' => 121
 ])
 );

return $notificationSetting;

You might also be able to use the create() method instead, that will return the instance of the model, but only if the attributes are fillable of course.

If you want to retrieve all the related records of a model at any time, you can use the load() method like this:

$user->load('notificationSetting');

It is also important the use the plural form for a hasMany relation in order to distinguish it from a hasOne or a belongsTo relation:

public function notificationSettings()

 return $this->hasMany('AppNotificationSetting');