Laravel - Many to Many Polymorphic Relation with Extra Fields

Question

How can I define a many to many polymorphic relation with extra fields?

I have three (or more, as it is a polymorphic relation) tables.

tags table: id, name

tagged table: id, tag_id, taggable_id, taggable_type, user_id

posts table: id, record, timestamps

users table: id, name, email

The user_id on the tagged table referes to the users table on column id. In my Post model I have:

public function tags()
{
    return $this->morphToMany('App\Tag', 'taggable','tagged');
}

and in my Tag model I have:

public function posts()
{
    return $this->morphedByMany('App\Post', 'taggable','tagged');
}

Then when I am try this in my controller:

$tag = new \App\Tag(
array(
    'tag'=>"someTag"
));
$tag->save()
$post = \App\Post::find($id);
$post->tags()->save($tag);

I get Integrity Constraint Violation for not having a user_id:

SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1452 Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails (hb.tagged, CONSTRAINT tagged_user_id_foreign FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users (id)) (SQL: insert into tagged (tag_id, taggable_id, taggable_type) values (26, 2, App\Resource)). Which is somewhat expected, as I have never had the chance to define or declare the user_id field.

Also, I have tried withPivot() on tags relation as follows, to no avail:

public function tags()
{
    return $this->morphToMany('App\Tag', 'taggable','tagged')->withPivot('user_id');
}

Answer 1

Like in the comment: withPivot has nothing to do with saving/creating. If you want to pass additional pivot data when saving, do this:

$post->tags()->save($tag, ['user_id' => $userId]);