Laravel Eloquent - equivalent to first() for last?

Question

I have a few models such as User, Post, Comment, etc.

In the User, I have:

public function posts() 
{
   return $this->hasMany('Post'); 
}

I can get the first post via $customer->posts()->first(), but what if I want to get the latest Post? There is no last() as I can see.

This is further compounded by a hasManyThrough relationship (unfortunately we inherited a wacky schema):

public function comments() 
{
     return $this->hasManyThrough('Comment', 'Post');
}

If I try to do an $this->comments()->orderBy('comments.id', 'desc')->first(); it returns a User object??

Answer 1

No, this

// User model
$this->comments()->orderBy('comments.id', 'desc')->first();

won't return User model.

And to get what you asked for, simply do this:

$customer->posts()->latest()->first();