How to retrieve all records by foreign key with Laravel

Question

I am trying to display all table records that match a foreign key id using Laravel. However, my query is not pulling any records into the view.

How do I find all of the records which match a foreign key id that is passed into the function?

routes.php:

Route::get('/personas/{idPersona}/quotes', 'QuoteController@index');

QuoteController.php:

public function index($id)
    {
        $quotes = Quote::where('idPersona', $id)->get();
        return View::make('quotes.index')->with('quotes', $quotes);
    }

views/quotes/index.blade.php:

<h2> Quotes </h2>

@foreach($quotes as $quote)

    <li>{{ $quote }}</li>

@endforeach

models/Quote.php

class Quote extends Eloquent {

    public $timestamps = false;

    protected $table = 'quote';

    protected $primaryKey = 'idquote';

}

models/Persona.php

class Persona extends Eloquent {


    public $timestamps = false;

    protected $table = 'persona';

    protected $primaryKey = 'idPersona';


}

I have 2 tables, Persona and Quote, and I am trying to pull all the quotes that match the foreign key idPersona:

CREATE TABLE `mountain`.`persona` (
  `idPersona` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `fName` VARCHAR(45) NULL,
  `lName` VARCHAR(45) NULL,
  `mName` VARCHAR(45) NULL,
  `bio` TEXT NULL,
  `dateBorn` VARCHAR(45) NULL,
  `dateDied` VARCHAR(45) NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`idPersona`));

CREATE TABLE `mountain`.`quote` (
  `idquote` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `quoteText` TEXT NOT NULL,
  `quoteSource1` VARCHAR(100) NULL,
  `quoteSource2` VARCHAR(100) NULL,
  `tag1` VARCHAR(45) NULL,
  `tag2` VARCHAR(45) NULL,
  `tag3` VARCHAR(45) NULL,
  `idPersona` INT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`idquote`),
  INDEX `idPersona_idx` (`idPersona` ASC),
  CONSTRAINT `idPersona`
    FOREIGN KEY (`idPersona`)
    REFERENCES `mountain`.`persona` (`idPersona`)
    ON DELETE NO ACTION
    ON UPDATE NO ACTION);

Answer 1

If you are using Eloquent, you have to get benifit of its powerfull ORM, to get all quotes that belongs to specific user you have to declare the relations first:

models/Persona.php

class Persona extends Eloquent {


    public $timestamps = false;

    protected $table = 'persona';

    protected $primaryKey = 'idPersona';

    function quotes() {
        return $this->hasMany('Quote', 'idquote');
    }

}

models/Quote.php

class Quote extends Eloquent {

    public $timestamps = false;

    protected $table = 'quote';

    protected $primaryKey = 'idquote';

    function persona() {
        return $this->belongsTo('Persona', 'idPersona');
    }
}

Then you can simply get the desired persona with all related quotes by using the relation we difined above:

QuoteController.php

public function index($id) {
    $quotes = Persona::with('quotes')->find($id)->quotes;
    return View::make('quotes.index')->with('quotes', $quotes);
}