Laravel Eloquent Many-to-Many query whereIn

Question

In my application I have updated a relationship from one-to-many to many-to-many and I'm trying to figure out a way to persist associated functionality.

Let's say I have two related tables, e.g. dogs and owners. If I have an array of owners and I'm trying to get a list of dogs id's for those owners, how should I do it eloquently?

Similar question was asked here: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/getting-many-to-many-related-data-for-an-array-of-elements

So, How would I get the Dog models where Owner is in an array ?

Same thing as $associatedDogs = Dog::whereIn('owner_id',$ListOfOwners)->get(); is for a One-To-Many relationship, but for Many-to-Many.

Answer 1

Use the whereHas() method:

$dogs = Dog::whereHas('owners', function($q) use($ownerIds) {
    $q->whereIn('id', $ownerIds);
})->get();

Answer 2

Try

$associateDogs = Dog::with(['owners' => function($query) use ($listOfOwners) {
    $query->whereIn('id', $listOfOwners);
}])->get();