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laravel eloquent relationships php

I'm integrating two systems and I'm facing an issue when trying to load nested relationships dynamically in Laravel 9 using Eloquent. I have a `Post` model which has many `Comments`, and each `Comment` can have many `Replies`. I'm attempting to retrieve a list of posts along with their comments and each comment's replies. However, I'm noticing that when I use the `with` method to eager load the relationships, it doesn't seem to load the replies correctly, and I get an empty array for replies. Here's the code snippet I'm using: ```php $posts = Post::with(['comments.replies'])->get(); ``` When I dump the `$posts` variable, the `comments` are loaded correctly, but the `replies` array is empty: ```json [ { "id": 1, "title": "Post Title", "comments": [ { "id": 1, "body": "Comment text", "replies": [] } ] } ] ``` I double-checked my relationships in the `Post`, `Comment`, and `Reply` models: In the `Post` model: ```php public function comments() { return $this->hasMany(Comment::class); } ``` In the `Comment` model: ```php public function replies() { return $this->hasMany(Reply::class); } ``` And in the `Reply` model: ```php public function comment() { return $this->belongsTo(Comment::class); } ``` This structure seems correct, but when I query for the posts with their comments and replies, the replies array is not populated. I suspect it might have something to do with the data structure in my database or perhaps some misconfiguration in my eager loading. I've made sure that the foreign keys are correctly set in my database, where the `comments` table has a `post_id` column, and the `replies` table has a `comment_id` column. I've also tried using `load()` on the `$posts` collection after retrieving the posts: ```php $posts->load('comments.replies'); ``` But this didn't resolve the issue either. Any insights into why the replies are not being retrieved would be greatly appreciated! I'm developing on Ubuntu 20.04 with Php. Could this be a known issue?