How to save in a polymorphic relationship in Laravel?

Question

I'm reading the tutorial* on how to define many-to-many polymorphic relationships in Laravel but it doesn't show how to save records with this relationship.

In the their example they have

class Post extends Model
{
    /**
     * Get all of the tags for the post.
     */
    public function tags()
    {
        return $this->morphToMany('App\Tag', 'taggable');
    }
}

and

class Tag extends Model
{
    /**
     * Get all of the posts that are assigned this tag.
     */
    public function posts()
    {
        return $this->morphedByMany('App\Post', 'taggable');
    }

    /**
     * Get all of the videos that are assigned this tag.
     */
    public function videos()
    {
        return $this->morphedByMany('App\Video', 'taggable');
    }
}

I've tried saving in different ways but the attempts that makes most sense to me is:

$tag = Tag::find(1);
$video = Video::find(1);
$tag->videos()->associate($video);

or

$tag->videos()->sync($video);

None of these are working. Can anyone give me a clue on what I could try?

• https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/eloquent-relationships#many-to-many-polymorphic-relations

Answer 1

It's simple like that, see this section.

Instead of manually setting the attribute on the videos, you may insert the Comment directly from the relationship's save method:

//Create a new Tag instance (fill the array with your own database fields) $tag = new Tag(['name' => 'Foo bar.']);  //Find the video to insert into a tag $video = Video::find(1);  //In the tag relationship, save a new video $tag->videos()->save($video); 

Answer 2

you missed a step in the associate method, use this:

$tag->videos()->associate($video)->save(); 

Answer 3

You can also try this which worked for me (morphMany):

$rel_data = ['assigned_type'=>'User','assigned_id'=>$user_model->getKey()];

$event->assigned_models()->create($rel_data);