How to handle Eloquent relationships returning empty collections in Laravel 9?
I can't seem to get I'm attempting to set up I've searched everywhere and can't find a clear answer. I'm working on a Laravel 9 application where I'm retrieving a list of users along with their associated posts. However, I noticed that when a user has no posts, the relationship returns an empty collection instead of null. This is leading to some unexpected behavior in my views where I'm checking if the relationship exists. For example: ```php $users = User::with('posts')->get(); foreach ($users as $user) { if ($user->posts) { // This block executes even when $user->posts is an empty collection. echo $user->name . ' has ' . $user->posts->count() . ' posts.'; } else { // This block never executes. echo $user->name . ' has no posts.'; } } ``` I've tried checking if `$user->posts->isEmpty()`, which works, but it's not very clean and can lead to confusion in larger view files. I really want to follow best practices and have a more elegant way to check for the existence of posts. Is there a recommended pattern or method to handle this situation effectively without cluttering my view logic? Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I'd really appreciate any guidance on this. Is this even possible? I'm using Php latest in this project. Any examples would be super helpful. Thanks for any help you can provide!