How to show the comments which belongs to the post?

Question

I'm creating a news feed kind of thing where users can post anything and the post will have comments also. I'm able to create the newsfeed and the comment section, but my real problem is I'm not able to show the comments which belongs to the post. Right now all the comments are displayed under every news feed. Though I've declared the eloquent relationship between feed and comment but still I'm not able to save the feed_id in comment table.

This is my FeedsController:-
<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Request;
use Auth;
use Sentinel;
use App\Feed;
use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Blog;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Comment;

class FeedsController extends Controller
{
public function index() {

  $comments = Comment::latest()->get();
  $feeds = Feed::where('user_id', Sentinel::getUser()->id)->latest()->get(); 
  $blogs = Blog::latest()->simplePaginate(5);
  $blogs->setPath('blog');
  return view('action.index')->with('feeds', $feeds)->with('comments', $comments)->with('blogs', $blogs);
}

public function store(Requests\CreateFeedRequest $request){
    $requet = $request->all();
    $request['user_id'] = Sentinel::getuser()->id;

  Feed::create($request->all());


  return redirect('home');
}

 public function storecomment(Requests\CommentRequest $request, Feed $feed)
 {

$comment = new Comment;
$comment->user_id =Sentinel::getuser()->id;
$comment->feed_id = $request->feed_id;
$comment->comment = $request->comment;
$comment->save();
  return redirect('home');
}  
}

This is the models: Comment model

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Comment extends Model
{
 protected $fillable = [
 'comment',
 'user_id',
 'feed_id'
 ];

 public function feed()
 {
    return $this->belongsTo('App\Feed');
 }

 public function user()
 {
    return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
 }
 }

Feed model:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Feed extends Model
{
 protected $fillable = [
 'feed_id',
 'user_id',
 'feed_content'
 ];

 public function user()
 {
    return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
 }

 public function comment()
 {
    return $this->hasMany('App\Comment');
 }
}

User model:-

<?php namespace App;
use Cartalyst\Sentinel\Users\EloquentUser;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;


class User extends EloquentUser {


/**
 * The database table used by the model.
 *
 * @var string
 */
protected $table = 'users';

/**
 * The attributes to be fillable from the model.
 *
 * A dirty hack to allow fields to be fillable by calling empty fillable array
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $fillable = [];
protected $guarded = ['id'];

/**
 * The attributes excluded from the model's JSON form.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $hidden = ['password', 'remember_token'];

/**
* To allow soft deletes
*/
use SoftDeletes;

protected $dates = ['deleted_at'];



public function feeds() 
{
    return $this->hasMany('App\Feed');
}

public function comment()
 {
    return $this->hasMany('App\Comment');
 }
 }

This is my feed.blade.php where I'm displaying the feeds output and commnets

@foreach($feeds as $feed)
<article class="media">
    <div class="well">
        <div class="pull-left"> 
            <img class="profile" src="{{ URL::to('/uploads/users/'.$feed->user->pic)  }}" class="img-responsive" alt="Image" style="width:48px;height:48px;padding-right : 10px;padding-bottom: 5px;">
         </div>
        <strong>{{ $feed->user->first_name }} 
                {{ $feed->user->last_name }}
                <small> posted </small>
         </strong>
                {{ $feed->created_at->diffForHumans() }}<br><hr>
                {{ $feed->feed_content }}

            <hr>
            {!! Form::open(['url' => 'home/{storecomment}']) !!}
                <div class="form-group">
                    {!! Form::text('comment', null, ['class'=>'form-control', 'rows'=>3, 'placeholder'=>"Comment"]) !!}
                </div>

                <div class="form-group feed_post_submit">
                    <a href="/home">{!! Form::submit('Comment', ['class' => 'btn btn-default btn-xs']) !!}</a>
                </div>
            {!! Form::close() !!}

            @foreach($comments as $comment)
                <div class="pull-left"> 
                    <img class="profile" src="{{ URL::to('/uploads/users/'. $comment->user->pic)  }}" class="img-responsive" alt="Image" style="width:48px;height:48px;padding-right : 10px;padding-bottom: 5px;">
                </div>
                {{ $comment->user->first_name }} 
                {{ $comment->created_at->diffForHumans() }}
                {{ $comment->comment }}<hr>
            @endforeach
    </div>
</article>
@endforeach

Can anyone tell me how to store the feed_id into comment table and displaying the comments according to the feed. Thank You. I'm using Laravel 5.1

Answer 1

Based on our lengthy convo -

To save the feed_id (which is our foreign key for future relationships), you need to set/send the feed_id in your POST request. Laravel is not magic and won't know this automatically. You can do this by adding a hidden input, like so:

<input type="hidden" name="feed_id" value="{{ $feed->feed_id }}" />

In your FeedController, change your index to this:

public function index() {

  // $comments = Comment::latest()->get(); remove this
  // notice the "with" below. I'm eager loading in relations here
  $feeds = Feed::with('comments', 'user')->where('user_id', Sentinel::getUser()->id)->latest()->get(); 
  $blogs = Blog::latest()->simplePaginate(5);
  $blogs->setPath('blog');
  return view('action.index', compact('feeds', 'blogs'));
}

Feed Model should have the correct relationships, as below:

class Feed extends Model
{
     protected $fillable = [
     'feed_id',
     'user_id',
     'feed_content'
     ];

     public function user()
     {
        return $this->belongsTo('App\User', 'id', 'user_id');
     }

     public function comments()
     {
        return $this->hasMany('App\Comment', 'feed_id', 'feed_id');
     }
}

Comment Model should have the correct relationships, as below:

class Comment extends Model
{
     protected $fillable = [
     'comment',
     'user_id',
     'feed_id'
     ];

     public function feed()
     {
        return $this->belongsTo('App\Feed');
     }

     public function user()
     {
        return $this->hasOne('App\User', 'id', 'user_id');
     }
}

Now you should be able to run your foreach as you currently have it.