advanced patterns with Laravel Eloquent Relationships in PHP 8
I've hit a wall trying to I'm not sure how to approach I tried several approaches but none seem to work... I'm working on a project and hit a roadblock. I'm working with an scenario with Eloquent relationships in Laravel 8. I have two models, `Post` and `Comment`, where a post can have many comments. The relationship is defined as follows: ```php // Post.php class Post extends Model { public function comments() { return $this->hasMany(Comment::class); } } // Comment.php class Comment extends Model { public function post() { return $this->belongsTo(Post::class); } } ``` The question occurs when I try to eager load comments along with posts. My controller code looks like this: ```php public function index() { $posts = Post::with('comments')->get(); return view('posts.index', compact('posts')); } ``` However, in my view, when I try to access the comments for each post, it returns an empty collection even though I can see comments are present in the database associated with the posts. I checked the database and confirmed that the `post_id` in the `comments` table correctly references the `id` of the `posts` table. I also tried using `dd($posts)` to debug the result and saw that the comments relationship is returning an empty array: ```php // Debugging output dd($posts); ``` This should have included the comments, but I see: ``` Collection { #items: array:3 [ 0 => Post {#1236} 1 => Post {#1237} 2 => Post {#1238} ] } ``` I've confirmed that there are no typos in the relationship names and that the migration for the `comments` table has been set up correctly. Has anyone experienced this scenario? Is there something I'm missing in the eager loading process? Any help would be greatly appreciated! This is part of a larger application I'm building. How would you solve this? For context: I'm using Php on Windows. I'm working on a application that needs to handle this. What's the best practice here?