Issue with Lazy Loading Relationships in Laravel 8 - Unexpected Results
I'm attempting to set up I'm stuck on something that should probably be simple. Hey everyone, I'm running into an issue that's driving me crazy. This might be a silly question, but I'm facing an issue with lazy loading relationships in a Laravel 8 application. I have a `Post` model that has a `comments` relationship defined as follows: ```php class Post extends Model { public function comments() { return $this->hasMany(Comment::class); } } ``` When I try to load a post along with its comments, I'm encountering unexpected results. Here’s the code I'm using to load the post: ```php $post = Post::find(1); $comments = $post->comments; ``` However, it seems that I'm not getting all of the comments associated with the post. Instead, I only receive comments that have a specific status (for example, `approved`). I have another scope in my `Comment` model that filters comments: ```php class Comment extends Model { public function scopeApproved($query) { return $query->where('status', 'approved'); } } ``` When I call `$post->comments`, it only returns the approved comments. I expect to see all comments regardless of their status. I tried using `with()` method to eager load the comments but that didn’t solve the issue either: ```php $post = Post::with('comments')->find(1); ``` I also checked the database and confirmed that there are indeed comments with different statuses associated with the post. I thought about using `load()` method explicitly to retrieve all comments, but I am still not getting the expected results. Is there any way to override the behavior so that I can access all comments for a post, not just filtered ones? Any insights or suggestions on how to approach this would be greatly appreciated! How would you solve this? I'm working on a web app that needs to handle this. Thanks in advance! I'm working on a API that needs to handle this. I'm coming from a different tech stack and learning Php. I'd be grateful for any help.